Our dangerous heat wave arrived today, and its only going to get hotter tomorrow. Were tracking the recordbreaking temperatures. Excessi creating several concerns. One, health. Two, slow business traffic. Three, potential power shutoffs. Raising money for the Boulder Creek volunteer fire department. Abc 7 news starts right now. Good evening and thanks for joining us, im indion lim. Imatcri is on, another scorr tomorrow. Lets get to meteorologist drew tuma. Were tracking even hotter temperatures tomorrow, eric and dion. Right now, a warm night, 79 in the city. 80 san jose. 77 in oakland. The air quality is moderate across the entire region, however, if you have been smelling a pretty strong, new smell of smoke, there is in fre start today, the creek fire. It did send a lot of smoke into the atmosphere. There are no new fires in the bay area tonight, but there is a lot of smoke in our atmosphere from that fire in Fresno County. Future tracker temperatures, get your workout in early by 8
Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Were in for another day of sweltering heat across the bay area. The heat wave has prompted a Public Safety power shutoff over the next few days, all while people try to get out this Holiday Weekend afterpendg months inside because of the pandemic. Good morning, everybody. It is sunday, september 6. Thank you for joining us. Im liz kreutz. Today is the 20th straight spare the air alert for the bay area. Lets get right to meteorologist lisa argen with a look at what we can chargexpect today. Good morning, lisa. Good morning, liz. From the mid60s t the delta. Winds are light so the offshore component isnt with us yet, that will be late tomorrow. Water view shows the smoke smoks the various fires burning in california. A high of 94 today at the host. 80 in mountain view. 72 downtown. Mt. Tam a little hazy there, 18 already in 79 in livermore. Our 24hour temperature change, were building on the warmth of the overni
Im liz kreutz. Today is the 20th straight spare the air alert for the bay area and lets get right to meteorologist lisa argen with a look at what we can expect today. Good morning, lisa. Good morning, liz. Hi, everyone. More sizzling temperatures, certainly records will be shattered. We look at live doppler 7, nothing to speak about here. As we widen the view, thats a Lightning Strike just north of shaver lake from the fire there, the creek fire. Those pyro cumulus clouds high in the atmosphere creating their own weather and you can see the smoke by reno there, looking at some very poor air quality in the mountains. Our air quality expected to go down as well. 67 san mateo. It is 78 in daly city. 55 Half Moon Bay with 70s in san rafael. 60s in the north bay. Low 70s in the south bay. 7 to 12 degrees warmer than yesterday at this our. Air quality in the moderate category for most and looking at some of that smoke to drift into the bay area on some lighter winds. Excessive heat warning u
And warnings will expire at 9 00 p. M. So its not only the heat we are tracking. Its also our air quality. Air quality right now is moderate across the entire region. But were going fluctuate, again, between moderate and poor the next couple days. So the spare the air days have been extended. We have heat, air quality issues and by thend of the weekend, well have high fire danger. Well talk about it all in the accuweather forecast in a few minutes. Thank you. In some parts of the bay area we cannot head to the water over labor day. Lake berryessa is closed including tomales bay and the seashore in marin county, all the beaches in pacifica, the fitzgerald marine preserve and bonitas creek reserve and santa cruz beaches are only open for a few hours each day. Beaches that are open are popular spots. Abc7 News Reporter anser hassan talked to people who headed to Stinson Beach. Reporter Stinson Beach in the north bay was a hot spot for those trying to escape this weekends recordbreaking ba
Its just 5 percent contained. And fire crews say it may not be contained. Until the end of the month. Fire crews from the bay area are already there. Just 5 contained and fire crews say it may not be contained until the end of the month. Fire crews from the bay area are already there and to some degree vice versa. There is a spare the air alert today. We do have team coverage, meteorologist carol hall is tracking the conditions. Chuck coppola is live in the area. What are they telling us to be weary of today, chuck . Well the first thing you notice is it is hazy here, but the bay area air Quality Management district declared today a spare the air day because of more cars on the road because of smog due to the beginning of the work week and high temperatures. But now it says, that the Monterey County fires are compounding things. Air Quality Management district says smoke and tiny particles from those fires are being pushed by winds into the south bay and may reach the north bay by as e