Drivers to stay home. But, while in the storm, we recommend that nobody drives through the area. Reporter snowplows are working overtime. Lower mountain ski lifts are open and plenty of people are taking advantage of many of the runs. However, the storm is boosting the risk of avalanches. Caltrans crews did some avalanche control today. Caltrans helped traffic along u. S. 50 to keep everyone safe among the blasts. Check this out. So much snow. That chp joked they couldnt find their trekkie Truckee Office through the mess. Reporter i80 west, an absolute mess. We did get a chance to speak to chp. The backup is due to several spin outs. As of right now, no injuries were reported. Patience is key. Cleanup may take a little bit. I80 east is also seeing some this is due in part by the fact that chp tell us that people are driving too fast. You have got to take it slow for now if you are finding yourself in this traffic, just be patient. We will keep you updated along the wait. This is a look
Afternoon. We do have the entire north a from the coast, valleys, as well as the hells last until 5 00 this afternoon. Associate to the east bay, the wind advisory expires for the bay area but the red flag warning continues for east bay hills as well as the valley locations until 5 00. One more shift along areas are the Santa Cruz Mountains stretching along the san mateo coastline in parts of the peninsula there. Also going until 5 00 this afternoon. We will check in with the winds briefly, we have lost almost road in the north reporting 21 relative humidity. The winds are sustained at 22. Not quite as gusty as early on, 65 degrees no. Santa rosa, take a look at that number, 27 degrees, 27 Miles Per Hour for the winds, relative committees 21 . Very warm, very dry and as we know, the winds are still blowing. Better details in what you can expect for today, the red flag warning set to expire later this afternoon and your extended forecast, coming up just a little bit. Millions of people
Slow you down a little bit as youre getting out there and then the senate to certainly the case this morning roadways are definitely wet. So you want to give yourselves that extra time as you venture outside overall just be prepared for the rainfall that. Yeah were going to continue to see out there today were doing across the bay from sausalito at San Francisco, a misty look to it morning that you do want to be prepared for just to stay dry. So right now the core of this Atmospheric River event still sits mostly to the south across the bay, the trajectory of it has shifted a little bit. It was pretty much coming into the Central Coast from the west earlier now its hitting the coast of the state from the south and west and in the process we have actually seen a resurgence of moisture in areas like san jose as well as other areas further south in the bay, we zoom in on some of the spots this morning you can see those areas of yellow orange and even red thats the deeper and heavier rainf
It means Power Outages could look like this. Take a look. Pg es Public Safety power shutoffs could kick in for the areas you see in orange in just a matter of hours. Good morning again, everybody. Its sunday, october 25th. Im liz kreutz. Thank you for joining us. We have complete coverage of Power Outages and what you need to know about them but were also tlracking the fire danger. We get over to meteorologist lisa argen with a look at the conditions. Good morning. Abruptly things will change this afternoon. Right now things are fine, winds are light. Theres a lot of fog out there, relative humidity is high and were looking for this abrupt change as a dry cold front moves into the bay area. So by 4 00, the valleys will be under a wind advisory. This is going to last until 11 00 on monday. Northeasterly winds 20 to 30 miles an hour. The gusts could exceed 50 miles an hour and we have weakened trees from the drought out there and also from fires, those could be coming down due to the win
The north bay and inland east bay beginning saturday evening at 9 00 until 8 00 monday morning. On mountain peaks, winds could gust 50 miles an hour. This raises a quadruple threat. Intense winds can whip up controlled fires into firestorms. We are taking initiative tos death up our units that are out on the fires. We will put additional staffing out. That will go across the board. Our house is right behind a hill. Is something we think about when the high winds come to make sure to water down our backyard. Reporter that raises the unlikely sect of bay area power shutoffs. The potential is real for sierra foothill counties. Weather is constantly changing. We have a team of meteorologist standing by 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They are monitoring the changes to see what the trends in the weather are and to see if we need to make any adjustments. Reporter prevailing winds could pump unhealthy levels of smoke back into the bay area, forcing more hungry down. It was hard on me but h