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A live look across the bay area. Wildfire smoke has drifted our way. This time, sticking around. Visibility not so great. Lots of people calling 911 to report the smell of smoke. Several Law Enforcement agencies have issued alerts, asking you dont call 911, unless you see flames or a plume of smoke. Lets get to jeff raineri. How bad is it . How long do we go through this . Were into it for another 6 hour. The fires to the north, look off and created the smoke and drifting it across the bay area. Fires from the oregon california border, a lot of it getting trapped in the south bay. Look at the air quality numbers. Los gatos, worst air quality in the bay area, 183 aqi. San jose, 177. Thats unhealthy. Limit that outdoor exposure. We roll through tomorrow. That plume of smoke stays right there fixed over the bay area, into the afternoon. We are calling for unhealthy air for the north bay, the bay, south bay. We have updated chances on when things will change for us. We will actually get so
Right now at 11 00, you can smell it. You can see it. A live look across the bay area. Wildfire smoke has drifted our way. This time, sticking around. Visibility not so great. Lots of people calling 911 to report the smell of smoke. Several Law Enforcement agencies have issued alerts, asking you dont call 911, unless you see flames or a plume of smoke. Lets get to jeff raineri. How bad is it . How long do we go through this . Were into it for another 6 hour. The fires to the north, look off and created the smoke and drifting it across the bay area. Fires from the oregon california border, a lot of it getting trapped in the south bay. Look at the air quality numbers. Los gatos, worst air quality in the bay area, 183 aqi. San jose, 177. Thats unhealthy. Limit that outdoor exposure. We roll through tomorrow. That plume of smoke stays right there fixed over the bay area, into the afternoon. We are calling for unhealthy air for the north bay, the bay, south bay. We have updated chances on w
Burp areas as well. Goes up to mendecino. Sierra nevada dealing rain and wind before they get the snow. Once they get the now itll start to stack up over the next 36 hours. Still rain to the north. Cloudy for the soup. This system will lift. A decrease in the rain. Once it starts to drive south tonight and tomorrow. Rain rates could be heavy at times. 40s, others. A cloudy, breezy day. Looking a little eventually itll drive back southward. Maybe two to four inch amounts. Russian river north. 6 01. What do you know sal . There are incident that have just popped up and i want to let you know we will start in near the cats restaurant. Thats a new one just on northbound 17. Sounds like four cars involved photograph sick going to be slowing down already. It just was reported a few moments ago. We have slow traffic in the area. 180 still looks good. So does 85 and 17. The rest of 17 getting over to the airport as it turns into i want to also look at highway 4. You can see a lot of stop and g
Tears terrace, not so much in allentown and reading. Its in berks county and lehigh county. Its rain farther south, but the snow line is pushing toward philadelphia and will be here before the end of the rush hour. A Winter Weather advisory is in effect across the northern suburbs, lansdale, doylestown included in this, this has been extended until 2 00 p. M. This afternoon. Slushy slick Road Conditions are possible in the northern areas, especially as any band of snow gets heavier and comes on through. I do think a lot of accumulation will be on the grassy surfaces and in philadelphia, the roads will remain just wet. The farther north you go into the advisory area, the better chance you have of slippery roads this morning. Allentown was at 38 were down to 34. Reading is above freezing. Again, even though you start out with wet roads in the area, some roads could become slushier later. In philadelphia, i dont think well have much trouble. Future tracker 6, more of the area gets closer