The flames. At one point powerful winds pushed smoke into contracosta county. It took views about two hours to get control of the area. Winds were Strong Enough to take someones backyard trampoline over the fence. Fremont Police Tweeted this picture as a reminder to secure things in your yard. Pg es website shows all the places where the power is out now. And recently released updates from the Utility Company indicate it could stay out longer than originally expected. The purple triangles on this map youre looking at indicate a Public Safety power shutoff. San francisco is the only bay area county not affected. The north bay is bearing the brun of all this. About 25,000 customers are without power in Sonoma County alone. Along with nearly 14,000 in marin county, 11,000 in napa and about 1,500 in Solano County. In the east bay there are roughly 16,000 customers without power in both alameda and contracosta counties. Santa clara county and san mateo counties also have a number of custome
Urging people to avoid standing underneath trees when winds are blowing like they did overnight and late today. Check out this trampoline that toppled over a fence in fremont. Police tweeting the picture to remind everybody, make sure that your items are secured, tied down during heavy winds. Its all part of the Public Safety power shutoffs. Hundreds of thousands of californians are affected, authorities trying to prevent their equipment sparking wildfires in extreme winds. Take a look from pg e. You can see exactly where power is out right now across the bay area. All the dots there in purple. You can see thousands of people are still affected in the bay area. Although the situation is getting better. We have Team Coverage today on the Power Outages and the winds. Abc 7 News Reporters Laura Anthony and Wayne Friedman are checking in on customers affected in the east bay and north bay. Lets begin with abc 7 meteorologist drew tuma and the forecast. The red flag warning still on. Yeah,
Trees fell left and right. It sounded like a category 4 or 5 hurricane. It was that loud. The winds shook the trees loose littering the streets and roads and prompting a big cleanup. I was shocked at the mess this morning. Branches was everywhere. So were power lines. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Im ama dates. And im dan lashly. The peak gusts reached over 80 miles an hour in st. Helena and 50 at the oakland airport. Sandhya, you told us this was coming, and boy, did it. Yeah, they were ferocious no doubt about it. Let me show you the wind advisory still in effect for salono county. Gusts up to 40 not out of the question until 8 00 p. M. Tonight. Still the possibility of downed tree and a few power lines going down. Look at the gusts right now to 25 in fairfield. Were going to get a second round of winds coming in later tonight going into tomorrow morning. Right now over the Higher Elevations gusts to 30 at mt. St. Helena. We did so these wind gusts close to 90 miles an hour ov
Good morning, everyone, it is sunday december 1st, im liz kreutz. Lets get right to the look at the weather. This is meteorologist lisa argen. This is a 2 on or storm impact scale. We have heavy downpours, breezy to gusty winds and this morning the rain is coming down from the north bay through the Santa Cruz Mountains. We do have breaks in our inland valleys but there is a chance of thunderstorms. As we look at live doppler 7 you will notice we have wet weather from the santa cruz area up through saratoga and sunnyvale, but as we go into the east bay its been light around martinez and richmond, 580, walnut creek a few light showers, dillon beach into marin, a lot of people live around hayward, fremont, san matteo not seeing any rain there. As we widen the view you can see the steady stream of moisture that wants to push up south of San Francisco bringing that showery regime with it, the high wind warning along the coast. This is through 3 00 tomorrow. The wind advisory for the rest of
Scale. That means some periods of heavy rain. The focus has been to the south of us around the Santa Cruz Mountains, Monterey County and the coastal hills. Winds gusting 40 to 50 miles an hour. Here is a look at live doppler 7. You can see the focus in the Santa Cruz Mountains from Scotts Valley to Boulder Creek and also up in the north bay around san rafael, elsewhere light to moderate rain. We widen the perspective you can see that bullseye south of the bay area where we will be getting the heavier rain. That will continue to be the issue today along with our advisories that take us right on through tomorrow morning and thats the high wind warning along the San Francisco coast, also the wind advisory for the rest of us and the Flash Flood Watch downstream of the kincade fire from marin, sonoma and n a napa. It is milder out there, 56 oakland, 50 novato. We will look for the temperatures to stay pretty much in the 50s today. Periods of light to moderate rain that will continue to shif