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Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. The west Coast Wildfire crisis causing smokefilled skies to dominate the bay area. From the Serious Health effects to todays niners game potentially put on pause. And mental stress for some. The gloomy air affecting all of us. Good morning, everyone, im liz kreutz. Thank you for joining us. Today is the 22nd executive spare the air day. Meteorologist lisa argen is here. Good mornin sig relief . Well, liz, were in a complicated blocked pattern in our atmosphere. It will change but it will be slow. Theres even smoke offshore, as well as to the south of us with the many fires burning. So it is going to be a while. But things are trending better as we get into the next 24 to 30 hours. Theres a look at the fog off the coast and smoke all throughout the state of california. Visibility continues to be reduced with the fog and haze and smoke entrained in this marine layer. A mile and a half, a mile and a quarter, peta
Its sunday, september 13th. Im liz kreutz. Thank you for joining us. Todays a record 27th consecutive spare the air day. Meteorologist lisa argen is here. Lisa, good morning. We are seeing some signs of relief . The forecast is pointed in the right direction. We have unhealthy air. Count me as one of the ones taking a toll with the weather. Its been hard on us all staying inside and having day after day of the very unhealthy air. Live doppler 7 picking up on the fog, the dense fog advisory through about 9 00, not as foggy as its been the past couple days but check out oakland over a mile is not great and a mile and a half in petaluma, a mile on the coast, six miles by the delta. Temperatures from the low to mid50s in the north bay to near 60 in brentwood. The reds indicate the unhealthy air once again, our spare the air alert. Onshore flow is with us, we need for it to strengthen today and as it does, it should help out in small amounts as we get looking bett. Ater afternoon,ayn for th
Haze. Lets bring in Frank Mallicoat who will talk about the air quality. Here we are, today feels different, not quite normal yet. Not quite normal but were certainly getting there. No bright orange glow, gasia. What a site it was yesterday. Today were back to our old faithful fogfilled sky. Theres plenty of smoke in the sky. That means two thirds of the air quality is poor quality, especially if you live in the east bay or north bay. This bears repeating. What a difference a day looks. Heres a look at oakland, wednesday draped in that bright orange hue and then back to the well take it. This is looking down on highway 24, foggy and gray there and as we go into the Rockbridge Area much of the same area. After fires, extreme heat, blackouts, anything that resembles normalcy in 2020 well take it. Its nice in the moment but scary and sad to think about the environment and think about the fact this will be yet again another new normal. But there was nothing normal about this. Actually had
The elements. First to meteorologist kari hall. Kari, is this pretty much our new normal for now . I hope not. I hope we do see changes as we go into the next couple of days. We can loop the smoke over the last 24 hours and see it has not moved. Were seeing it go up in the atmosphere and travels developing story, under way, acrosscountry. Thats what were seeing right now. We want to talk about why do we large fire at port of beruit. Have the orange sky and why its remember, this is where last so smoky right now. Month the massive explosion the problem is were seeing so rocked the city. Much of that smoke when you at least 190 people died in that think about the sunlight and blast that flattened nearby neighborhoods. The cause of the recent fire is those light rays that come through, on the when you unclear but the Lebanese Army says that fire is burning at a warehouse where oil and tires are stored. Have short waves that make it new job numbers came out through and that gives us blue t