Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. These are the equivalent if not stronger than the tubbs fire of 2017 and kinkaid in 2019. Theyre shutting down after of california, thats crazy to me. Seemingly everyone in the bay area is preparing for the effects as critical fire conditions move in this morning. It means Power Outages could be widespread. Take a look, pg es Public Safety power shutoffs could kick in for the areas you see here in orange in just a matter of hours. Good morning, everybody, it is sunday, october 25. Im liz kreutz. Thank you for joining us. We have complete coverage of these Power Outages and what you need to know about them. Were tracking fire danger as well. Lets get right over to meteorologist lisa argen. Good morning, lisa. Good morning, liz. All is calm right now with the south wind, an onshore flow. Here is live doppler 7 with the cloud cover. By the afternoon this will be abruptly changing. Northeasterly winds, 25 to 30 mi
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Into our Service Territory around wednesday and thursday, mainly in the sierra foothills and northbay. Operation center is not just a bunch of computers. Actually have a lot of people in the field. 26 crews that practice the 3ss. Safety, including suppression of fires, switching, between sparks can happen and they are on standby to put those out if they happen, and finally, seeing, reporting back the actual conditions on the grounds of these folks here, who then alerts the Emergency Operations center. Reporter it is here that the decisions are made where and when to have shutdowns. Check this out, cal fires history of fires in the last quarter of the year, seven of californias worst fires occurred in the last quarter. 14 of the 20 deadliest fires also came in the last quarter, and 17 of the most destructive wildfires also came in the last quarter. So, whether the last shutdown was poorly handled, the risk is all too real. We learned a lot from the last Public Safety power shut off and
Lifeguard. Its humid but not as bad by the coast. I have a twitter follower down the shore who has guests coming today. Youll probably be okay today but keep an ear out for thunder and get off the beach if you hear that. We have a fair amount of cloud cover across the beach. I had the sun breaking out from behind the clouds extra minutes ago on the terrace. The rain is to the west pinwheeling around a approaching low. As we get into the afternoon and evening some that will approach from the west and hit some of us. A gusty thunderstorm wouldnt be out of question. 82 in philadelphia. 84 in washington. 81 in notion. Again, most of us with the flow coming up from the south and in from the ocean are getting humid. The dewpoints from here all the way down through washington and richmond, virginia and roanoke are 70 or better. That means oppressively humid air. The rest of the afternoon 2 00. 85. 87 is the high at 4 00. 83 at 6 00 p. M. Down into the 70s at 9 00 p. M. A chance of thunderstor
Thunderstorm warning that is now extended into Delaware County parts of philadelphia New Castle County and into parts of south jersey. Its all because of this line of storms coming in from the west. Some of these are producing not only heavy wind gusts downpours but also lots of lightning and if we go in closer, storm tracker6 live double scan is tracking this one as it heads in towards Chester County out of lancaster county, areas of Chester County already being hit with heavy downpours, lots of lightning, 37 strikes in the last couple minutes and that white lightning bolt there is a live one. Chatham will get this about 4 31 avondale 4 34. Down towards kaolin 4 38 in Chester County, Kennett Square 4 39 hockessin 4 40. York wood between now and 4 42. Youre encouraged to take cover indoors inside, because of all the frequent lightning. Again producing about 40 Miles Per Hour wind gusts right now pushing east into Chester County and may make it all the way into philadelphia and media la