And friday really in the midst of it as winds begin to pick up. I mean theres one telltale sign of the winds right there is why are your Center Towers shot waving a bit back and forth and what is otherwise a really beautiful view. Fire weather with red flag warnings in effect now all the way through friday at 11 00am for upper elevations of the Santa Cruz Mountains nearly all of the east bay once you head into the east bay mountains in the inland valleys and then across the north bay to winds, especially in the north bay going to be gusting into a 50 mile per hour range at times. Winds already picked up compared to earlier this morning atlas peak vacaville, petaluma among some breezy spots winds will gradually increase on into the afternoon today you see that areas like vacaville in petaluma as well as down into the south bay at the tonight into tomorrow morning will be the breezy us tough conditions. This is thursday morning at 04 45am right here likely before youre getting up youll h
During this time as of right now temperatures are still comfortable ahead of what will be a warmer afternoon. 50s and 60s for most areas, couple 70s on the map though like in novato at 73 degrees. Later today. It will be solid 80s for San Francisco, oakland and san jose. While some 90s elsewhere in the bay, well talk more about that still ahead back to you robin all right, thank you for the update John Elliotts update your morning commute. Were checking in on the traffic out there and theres not much right now heading into San Francisco, heres a live. Look at the bay bridge toll plaza where traffic is nice and light and smooth, but no big problems across the upper deck, so its always nice when we can start office way right. Its going to stay like this all the way out to one oh one and to 80. All right, lets check in on the san mateo bridge were taking a peek at 92 and look at the westbound traffic busier and busier every time we take a look so get on out there early its already a littl
Around the corner which as you guys mentioned could cause a lot of us across the bay area problems, especially if you are in one of those areas. We could lose power as fire danger increases, looking outside this morning at least we do have a beautiful start to the day. Its dark but it is very clear out there to kick off this morning, pretty calm for now, but winds pick up tonight across especially the coast and across the north bay, those winds will gradually spread be really widespread for portions of the in one north bay into the inland, the east bay by the time we work our way into wednesday and thursday now these winds paired with increasingly warm temperatures means fire danger is going to be of concern vacaville atlas peak Calistoga Sonoma seeing winds gusting regularly and into a 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour range that paired with low humidity and hot temperatures of so theres a lot this season way too much is going to result in the high fire danger out right now temperatures 40s 50s
Still ahead robin. A pretty busy commute to San Francisco right now thanks to an early trouble spot. Of Treasure Island so lets go. Dont know whats wrong with the mikes all toss it back to you i will work on that thanks a lot robin. Meantime the big story that were following is possible Power Outages people are bracing for shut offs pg and e is releasing more information too about which areas could be impacted. Yeah weve got kron 4 Sarah Stinson standing by in Sonoma County with a look at what we can all expect sarah good morning. Other finally releasing you know which counties how many customers will be affected by this power shut off if it happens. Tomorrow afternoon and it could be as many as 22,000 customers take a look at your screen we rode out each county for you and spelled out just how many people would be affected you can see there on your screen it would be including alameda contra costa santa clara and san mateo counties and then as we slide over to the next one napa sonoma
A lot of these questions whats going on with red flag warning john yeah, robin is something weve seen a lot so far this season, its a pairing of the already hot temperatures that weve had that are only getting hotter dry conditions and the noticeable increase in wind speeds today these offshore winds will be pushing into the bay area consistently starting today lasting through tomorrow into early friday, too. And red flag warnings are officially in effect as of just a few minutes ago looking outside at our sutro tower right here skies are crystal clear. No fog. No cloud cover it is dry at least it is a beautiful start to the morning as i mentioned red flag warnings really just took effect from 05 00am this morning until 11 00am on friday and really lighting up the vast majority of the bay area here upper elevations of the Santa Cruz Mountains from the inland east bay all the way out to the hills right above oakland, san leandro down through fremont and then all across the north bay to