Here in the bay area by this power safety public shut off. Thats just coming from pg e because of the high fire danger thats coming our way this week. Cities impacted include ag win calistoga deer park. Pope valley saint helene and also unincorporated parts of napa county. The estimated shut off time is anywhere on the 7th which would be monday between 10 00pm and 02 00am with power not being turned back on. I assume this means the earliest on the 9th which would be 2 days later at 07 00pm this will impact about 2700 customers that just for napa Sonoma County only has about 3 customers are saying impacted in cloverdale were still working on getting all the information about this a p s p s people who are impacted should be getting an alert at some point tonight that this is coming. Meanwhile earlier this evening cal iso the state Energy Monitoring agency declaring a stage 2 emergency. Which meant rotating Power Outages were possible. But once again that flex alert that we were under end
Parts of lake county, 24 customers would be impacted. This is a situation that is developing right now well have more information coming up in a live interview with pg any i lets going to check in on the weather is the live picture right now over downtown San Francisco. A hot one all day long red flag warning its going to be in effect for upper elevations across the bay area starting at 10 oclock tonight. Kron fours a chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is standing by with the wet in the Weather Center with the very latest laura you guys remember that after that last big he way we had. We had a Lightning Strike so were primed with the hot weather. Were not going to the Lightning Strikes this time. Now were going get the gusty winds so should a fire start in those kind of conditions extremely dangerous. Look at the temperatures we had today now is on top of the record breakers we had yesterday numerous records falling a 112 in livermore say one 11 in the napa valley, one 10 and santa ro
Sonoma county who live south of mill creek road and west of westside road and east of palmer creek road. Abc7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is live with with pg e Public Safety shutoffs. Good morning, amy. Hi, good morning, kumasi. Pg e started shutting off the power overnight in parts of napa and sonoma county. The utility said this should impact 172,000 customers. We are on our way up to napa county right now to check out the situation. Pg e says its doing this because the forecast is calling for dry and windy conditions. Calling this critical fire weather with a high ignition risk. They are afraid a power line could fall and start a fire. Pg e says while this weather calls for being on high alert, it does not look like the weather we saw in 2017 when the fire happened. This event doesnt have as much as we call upper level support with it. So, we dont anticipate it being as strong. They are also watching the walbridge fire jumped a containment area. Evacuations have been ordered there
Helena. You can see the winds are already strong. And look at this, the red flag warning through at least 8 00 wednesday. So, even when the winds subside, the humidity very low as we head through tomorrow morning. Lets break down today. Going to be almost as hot as it was over the weekend but not as quiet. The east bay hills still 85 degrees up there with those winds. So, expect 70s at the coast 80s in San Francisco and 9 os and 100s for the rest of us. This could be the last day we say 100s. Ill show you the sevenday forecast coming up. Heres kumasi. Today is the first day of classroom instruction for hundreds of students in the north bay. Marin county approved waivers for more than a dozen schools to reopen during the pandemic. Education, as you know, one of the five issues that we focus on to build a better bay area. Lauren martinez is set at a school that is set to welcome back its students. Were in front of marin not all 15 will reopen, but they are allowed to do so. Now, the coun
Because tomorrow. Thats when the heat is really going to crank up lets take a look at temperatures out there right now tracking widespread low to mid 70s for most of the north bay in the low to mid 80s for the tribe valleys even san jose cooling down to 78 degrees mid 70s right now for oakland and hayward 81 degrees as you step outside right now low 80s for those of you in redwood city. But you cant beat the beach in fact lets take a look at temperatures right now that the San Francisco peninsula coastline. Downtown San Francisco in the mid 60s, most of us dont even need a sweater if youre heading out for your thursday night Half Moon Bay, though rebel 59 degrees out there currently because of that cool sea breeze, but fortunately this is going to be our saving grace with the heat wave wind speeds going to be about 20 per hour or less but just keep in mind even with a light sea breeze or any light breeze for that matter in the coming days with this hot and dry weather heading our way i