We will warm up as we look to the weekend. Details on that are coming up. Gianna is tracking a crash on the bay bridge. I am. Thankfully it is a minor fender bender. A couple cars got tangled up. It looks like it is being pushed off the bridge. It is not causing a lot of delays though it is early and it is friday. We see less cars on the roadways on friday. It should be a good pace even with that trouble spot. Traffic is quiet as you head towards the pay gates. Chp is working on a crash, cesar chavez on ramp, we have a motorcycle accident that has that shut down until further notice. Main lines of 101 though are not affected. I am anne makovec. We are keeping an eye on an investigation about to commence in the south bay into this fire in san jose yesterday. Search teams are going to be going into an under ground utility facility where this erupted yesterday to try to find out how this fire started and assess the extent of the damage, flames shooting from the median at the height of the
Our way into the afternoon all of us are going to be seeing a dose of rain it will be some lighter stuff, nothing more than a 10th to a quarter of an inch of rainfall for the bay. Snowfall in the sierra im anticipating is going to cause you some more travel woes than anything here locally well have Winter Weather advisories and Wind Warnings both taking effect in only an hour from now at 10 00am last until 10 00pm tonight, the pairing of snow and winds doesnt mean potential of low visibility and drifting snow on roadways. So bring the chains with and i would do your travel during daytime hours avoid evening travel up into the sierra 40s and 50s for your current temperatures alameda in hayward each up 51 berkeley san Mateo San Francisco eat right at 50 degrees weve been a lot warmer this morning than we were the past couple of mornings over to you robin. Thank you john be careful how you drive in the rain just a little bit of rain can lead to a number of crashes right and increase. And
Danger that continues to just be here with us. Half moon bay other coastal areas on the peninsula and upper elevations of the Santa Cruz Mountains all of the inland east bay, all of us a in lake countys most of napa and then upper elevations of sonoma and marin counties all these areas affected by red flag warnings now extended through tomorrow night as winds gust as high as 40 Miles Per Hour in some of these areas and its not just the winds, but also the very low humidity to our current temperatures right now actually looking pretty comfortable id say get outside enjoy this morning before another warm afternoon around the corner right now were in the 50s 60s with one exception near santa rosa. At 49 degrees currently so your forecast today again going to be warm and again going to be windy course we need to know what traffic is looking like though still a little bit early i think for most of busy spots but where we sit right now robin the earlier folks can get out there the better job
The bay itself and fire danger has increased due to that especially across the north bay and for inland east bay areas, were winds overnight have been gusting consistently on up to a range of 45 Miles Per Hour at times winds this morning in calistoga snowman vacaville have regularly beget been gusting into that 30 mile per hour range. Fairfield in danville also quite on the breezy side so these are windiest of areas as of right now as we work our way through the day youll continue to see strong winds on through the morning, a bit of a calmer afternoon and then wind speeds picking back up again into evening hours tonight with the vacaville atlas peak calistoga in sonoma. All seeing yet another breezy evening from thursday night into friday morning friday midday winds begin to back off and after that we are in for a much less higher fire risk weekend. And still a toasty one but not as high of that fire danger for sure. Now right now temperatures are mostly in the 60s to 70s, although a c
Right, thank you john for checking in on the bridges summer packed with traffic others are just foggy. The golden gate were checking in on one on one a dense fog advisory issued early this morning and we can see why were at that hours you can see it right now so going to be dealing with that from the north bay to San Francisco. But youre averaging 20 minutes. So thats really good for your drive here in the bay bridge toll plaza it looks like the morning commute is already thinning out. Yes, we have a line thats feels back be on west graham but about 20 minutes ago it was really packed it was much heavier so its already improving 13 minutes off to fremont street and ill give you one more highway for west slow from right around the pittsburg bay point bart station up and over the hill into conquered no crashes theyre averaging 24 minutes up to 2. 42 daria. Thanks a lot rob and lets get to the breaking news which are the fires in sonoma and napa counties and what has been devastated, you