Uproar a bay area later after waymo gets the final approval to drive on San Francisco into the south bay. Governor plan to improve oaklands streets will go over the specifics there here with city leaders. Think about it. When fun time from the bay areas local news station. Youre watching kron. 4 news. Good evening, everybody. Thanks for joining us kron for news at 10. Im vicki liviakis. Im grant lotus. Powerful winds are bringing down trees across the bay area tonight at tonights storm is also forcing road closures and up in the sierra spinouts and whiteout conditions have actually shut down. I80. It is a mess in the high country. We have Team Coverage tonight crow for some and harry is live in the east bay where the rain isnt stopping people from having a friday night out. First, though, we go to chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow who is tracking the storm arts. Yeah. Guys rocking around the bay area right now. Things really get going as weve seen the showers and thunderstorms seeing
Kron. 4 morning far. Well, good friday morning. Thank you for waking lives right early for the kron. 4 morning news reyna harvey. All right. Today is march first and were talking about the big storm that is here. Want to make sure that youre safe. John show youve been actively talking about this for the weekend is arrive. Coming salutely and yesterday we saw kicking into gear in today for the sierra kick it into high gear. Were looking at the forecast for the weekend. That is not going to be fun for your travels specially not to the mountains as for the bay. Right now we are seeing lighter showers out there. Getting a break from it for a lot of spots. Golden gate bridge. You can see the sway to that camera. There. We are definitely breezy as well as windy spots of rain, mostly light this morning at this point. But we will see heavier pockets as we roll our way into the afternoon and the sierra is really where the focus of this energy is. Were really starting to see the snow piling up u
The officials we have a warning from them about the heaviest rain. Thats on the way. Find. And then ransacked oakland. Deli owner says he got served with another setback this week. Plus, San Francisco mayor london breed says the citys fight against homelessness is working and shes using a new report as proof. News station. Hes calling news 2. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news at 2. Im justine waldman. We have Live Team Coverage tracking this latest winter storm kron. 4 Charles Clifford is in the north bay finding out how people there are handling this next round of wet weather. But we will begin with a check on the conditions all across the bay area with meteorologist kyla grogan. Hows it look out there . Hey, theres been a bit of a wild ride so far. Weve got downpours that we have sunshine were getting cooler temperatures rolling in. The wind is picking up. You can see all that moisture kind of rolling across as we take a live look here. You can see all those clouds that a
Here. Kron will keep you updated as we do see any sort of Thunderstorm Development traveling up into the sierra. Honestly, just a nogo. Stay put, stay safe. We are going to see 0 visibility in the mountains because its not just the feet of snow but 80 to 90 Miles Per Hour winds. Thats whats prompting these blizzard warnings that will remain in effect through the weekend. Once you head to the top of Donner Summit, most models are indicating we could have around 9 feet of snowfall piling up. Its going to take days for crews to get up there to shovel all that out. Current temperatures are in the 40s to 50s double in fairfax, sitting at 49 oakland, alameda, San Francisco. Each 53 right now later on today. Daytime highs rise into the upper 50s right now. I dont think that lets get you things are very slick and wet out there. If you are going to traveling into the city this morning. 13 minute ride down the bay bridge. 7, 2, words around 14 minutes there. Richmond center fell bridge 10 minute
Radar what i show you more than anything the reason for though the fact that the clouds are starting to lift out. We finally have that sun returning. That will allow to us moderate back up to more seasonal upper 40s for daytime high. This is just a snap chat of the current satellite. Starting to see that sun filter in or out completely but keep in mind, looks are deceiving on days like this. The kids are out playing in the sunshine here at Whitfield Elementary School but ive seen this camera shaking quiet bit in the wind flow. Its 39 degrees there in west lawn pa next door to reading. It does feel a lot colder when you factor in this win. Our current temperatures for the most part are in the 40s. But it feels more like the 30s. You can be knocking anywhere from five to 10 degrees off any time the wind blows. Lets talk about this setup and the possibility of snow. Right now, were looking ahead to mid december outlook that just features surges of arctic air funneling in. A couple of oppo