Lotus and im Vicki Liviakis some gusty winds mean that any fire that has sparked a can spread rapidly chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow here tracking those winds for us tonight want various he has some breaking down guys down below me the urban areas where most of us live not much in the way of wind 5 mile an hour winds in oakland youve got 6 right now in the nevada 6 in the petaluma but certainly up above. Its a completely different story in fact those winds getting very gusty across some of the mountain tops and thats what were concerned about thats red flag warnings have been posted weve seen winds over 30 almost 40 Miles Per Hour across some of the peaks in the north bay expected to pick up here as we head through the next few hours and probably top out about one 32 oclock in the morning. Before we watch the winds begin to subside so red flag warnings are posted of course we just had a record heat wave things very dry out there now weve got the gusty winds above a 1000 feet also
Change. Nearly 30 degrees cooler in some spots than it was yesterday. Look at santa rosa. Even as temperatures dropped, the winds are picking up intensity and we have a red flag warning in effect for all the Higher Elevations in the bay area until 8 00 tomorrow morning. The relative humidity is dangerously low as the winds intensify with wind speeds, gusts in the Higher Elevations up to 32 miles an hour in st. Helena. 17 miles an hour at atlas peak. And we have a wind advisory for virtually all the Higher Elevations. Now we go to drew tuma. Reporter you can see the sky behind me. It has that yellow hue once again as the sun is setting and we will find that sunset with the yellow orange sky like it was early this morning when the sun was rising. Lets look at where all the smoke was coming from. You can see the august complex fires to our north. Well add the winds to the satellite picture were seeing and the winds that we have, those offshore gusts that had developed and prompted the red
The Santa Cruz Mountains in the oakland area right the Oakland Hills above a 1000 feet or so the diablo range also looking at some very gusty winds there and that will be the case some of these gusts of 25 to maybe 45 Miles Per Hour maybe the gusting higher than that in spots are going to see that especially over the top of the mountains very very gusty winds right latest on the computer models you can see youve got a little bit of a breeze out there in fact a little bit of a sea breeze returned today but not for long all of a sudden we get that offshore wind look at the colors rolling in the bay area and these are down the urban areas got 2030 mile an hour winds down a place like Petaluma Santa Rosa also calistoga sonoma up on the mountain tops. It will be a lot more gusting than that of course we are primed with fire with treasure record breaking heat, so certainly some dangerous weather ahead as fire danger is going to be running extremely high. Thank you or some other big element t
Biggest challenge for crews on fires, alyssa is standing by the front lines today. Or because a little birdie told me you wanted them back 90s, better than triple digits. Santa rosa right around 90. With information on the lnu really bad. San francisco, 73 degrees. Get my spicy chicken strips combo san jose, in the upper 80s and lighting fire complex burning for only 5. 99. Mid90s for morgan hill and gilroy. In sonoma, napa county. We go here is a look ahead. Hazy of course, that will probably be the repeating theme each and every day through the weekend, you will see right to allie, she is temperatures, they cool off today, kind of stabilizing monitoring the fire burning in santa cruz in San Mateo County friday and could warm up a little bit by saturday, so and new Evacuation Orders are temperatures inland in the mid now in effect. To upper 90s by saturday, and then as we head towards sunday, these high clouds represent or symbolize a bit of uncertainty, that is right, the most there
In terms of acreage. It has burned nearly 366,000 acres and is 25 contained. Five people there including three First Responders have been hurt. And 31 structures destroyed. In santa cruz and san mateo counties, officials this morning confirming a second death connected to the czu fire. Officials say a 63yearold woman was found dead inside the fire zone. Six people remain missing. That fire has burned at least 80,000 acres and is 19 contained. One person has died and 538 structures have been destroyed. Now officials are holding a News Conference right now about the lnu fire. Lets listen in. Fire engines assigned to incidents from arizona,idaho, nevada, new mexico, texas, oregon, utah, washington, and montana. And thats part of the 375 engines that were requested. One thing i want to touch on real briefly this morning is driving. As we start to repopulate areas as well as curiosity is regarding some of the wildfires is we really want to encourage people to stay out of the area. We have a