Season but a historic number fires have already blazed through the state. 3 more than million acres have burned in 2020. Surpassing the previous record, set in 2018. Nearly 15,000 firefighters are battling 28 major blazes across the state. They have also t aimed at le 12 lives. But amid the destruction comes opportunity, guided by science, san jose state iversity has just inaugurated a new Wildfire Research center. Thoflargest one its kind in the nation. The scientists span a range of disciplines from meteorology, to ecology to a social science. E they are ping new tools and techniques to better study, predict, and adapt to living with wildfires. Joining me now skype is craig clemts, the directorof the wildfire Interdisciplinary Research center, and a professor of meteorology at san jose state university. Also joinin us from jose is Amanda Stossel with. Assistant professor of wildfire management at the center, hello to you both. Hello hi. Craig, lets start with yook you at the skies th
Kicks off california speak fire season but historic number of through the state. Blazed more than 3 million acres have burned in 2020. Surpassing the previous record, set in 2018. Nearly 15,000 firefightersare battling 28 major blazes across they have alclaimed at least 12 lives. But amid the destruction comes opportunity, ided by science, San Jose State University has just inaugurated a new wildre research center. The largest on the nation. The scientists span a range of disciplines from meteorology, to ecology to a social science. They are pioneering new tools and techniques to better study, predict, and adapt to living with wildfires. Joining me now by skype cl craients, the director of the wildfire Interdisciplinary Research center, and a professor of meteorology at san jose state unoiersity. Alsong us from san jose is Amanda Stossel with. Assistant professor of wildfire management at the center, llo to you both. Hello. Hi. Craig, lets start with you, you look at the skies this wee
Here throughout the weekend to make the lake safe again in the meantime napa county deputies want to make sure that people stay away. Napa counties Lake Berryessa might seem like the ideal place to cool off an escape this weekends scorching temperatures but because of the hennessy fire. The lake is off limits through labor day the areas surrounding the lake. The infrastructure and some places the roadway itself. Suffered some pretty some pretty significant damage. A county under sheriff John Crawford says deputies will be patrolling the lake to keep people away. The closure is for safety and will allow hundreds of crews to remove trees clear around roads and put in new utility poles and lines all that work needs to happen without visitors flocking to the lake. Theres just a lot just a lot of things that need to be taking care of cleaned up prepared. Before people can really safely come back and recreate a late various, the head of the fire is the largest of the lnu complex fires, its b
Weekend hot and dry temperatures exceeding 100 a lot of the east bay portions of county as well little part like San Francisco to the and also along the coastline, not to are in a little bit. Were looking at excessive heat advisory, but this is an excessive heat warning and just about all the entire bay area for the weekend temperatures thus far come into the 60s we got some 50s up to the north bay feeling pretty good to start 61, san jose. Most readings inland are actually ahead of the ball game or only trailing a little bit around the coast. And up to the north bay a little bit as well not having a lot the way of winds just a minor little breeze here going on here is the breakdown word, 84 by 11 by 2 oclock 99. Again with numbers topping off well beyond 100. Well take a closer inspection of those temperatures coming up in just a bit marty. All right dave and we want to continue our coverage of this hot Holiday Weekend by taking a look the way to some cities are helping people stay co
With all the fires in place, you have so much smoke. Again, the wind does push it around, when you get a west southwest winds, like right now, it is going mainly east, so like contra costa county, Santa Clara County, those will get a bit more in the areas of haze. Oakland, san jose, at 60 degrees, the wind of change is howling for some. The fog bank will retreat, but it may be a bit better for you with that westsouthwest wind. It looks like its going to start losing out over the next couple days, but today, temperatures below average across the board. Lets go over to sal now and see if there is anything new popping up on screens. Good morning, sal. Nds good morning to you by the way, steve. On the carquinez bridge and Altamont Pass, the winds are an issue, but not the bay bridge, as you come into San Francisco. We have also been looking at some of in oakland is off to a 4 32, lets go back to the headlines point all right, sal, thank you. Accused of threatening the Santa Clara County he