Well see those purple triangles finally disappear. About 10,000 customers are still in the dark this morning. At last check, electricity has been restored to 335,000 customers. Many of them lost electricity on sunday. We are still at risk of fires even if the red flag warning is over. A small wildfire broke out before 8 00 last night. This is in napa and sonoma counties. Crews were able to get that under control. In orange county, its quite a different story. The race to contain two fastmoving wildfires being pushed by the santa ana winds, nearly 70,000 people are under a mandatory evacuation this morning. Jobina is tracking that and these questions about how one of these fires started. Jobina . Thank you. Good morning. Fire crews say they could see a break later today when the winds start to die down. The fires started on monday. So far the silverado fire in the hills above irvine burned 13,000 acres. Its 5 contained. The blue ridge fire is about 15 miles away. It burned 15,000 acres
Grows. 7 00 a. M. , 78, 9 00 a. M. , 81. The key here is that northeast wind coming down the hillside. As this comes down in elevation and sinks, that warmth, and thats why it led to that very warm start this morning. Now, the red flack fire warning has been extended for a portion of the bay area, for the north bay hills and east bay hills. This has been extended until 6 00 a. M. Saturday. Winds not extremely strong, but it is still warm, and it is still to try and breezy. We could have winds gusting to 30 miles an hour. Right now as we look at some of the sensors, the winds, nothing too extreme, but it is still so hot and dry. Here is our live camera this evening, looking out towards San Francisco and downtown with mostly clear skies. The current numbers, still have 90s well inland. San francisco in the mid80s. Half moon bay, 81 degrees. The heat advisory expires later on this evening. The weekend will bring in some cooler air. More on your weekend outlook coming up in a few minutes.
Cool off so yeah. We are lucky. Reporter and all, about 41,000 customers were impacted in parts of 24 counties with peak wind gust one state reaching 65 miles an hour but now that weather clear has been given an pg e is systematically bring that power back on. Places like alameda and santa cruz counties are 100 restored, Sonoma County bite midafternoon was more than halfway there. Basically you have it in sectors, and alignment, cruise basically going and my ends along those lines to make sure there is not any damage and that we have helicopters, eyes in the sky, also doing this on the line. Still on the winds have abated, the heat has not yet been it is hot, it makes it hard to be outside, especially with the kids. Has left residents and Business Owners looking for shade at their whiskey bar and grill, they have got a spot ready for those looking to leave their homes and have a cool drink. Still it is hard on staff. Reporter people keeping on during it, make sure the are taking care o
Building in allowing for once again the heat to really soar in our inland valleys. From 11 00 to 9 00 p. M. Monday night were talking upper 90s to 110 degrees in our inland valleys with a heat advisory right along the coast and bay shore. So were talking the risk of heatstroke and a spare the air alert today with poor air quality, north bay, coast, and central bay, east bay, moderate air quality for your sunday. A look at the current air quality shows good conditions throughout most of the bay area. Vackaville, though, you can see its moderate. And as we go further to the south san jose is looking good, but down around the fires there, around la honda it is moderate. Looking at 1 00, 100 degrees in livermore with near 80 in oakland. But by 4 00, 5 00 we are well past 100 from concord to san ramon into gilroy. It is going to be sweltering today. The heat only builds for your sunday with perhaps 110 inland. For your holiday on monday were still very, very warm and then, liz, into tuesday
We will get a weak sea breeze today, but an excessive heat warning throughout the day today into 9 00 monday night from upper 90s to about 110. Where you see the red shading there and where the orange is, thats the heat advisory. 11 00 today through the same time period monday night heat illnesses are possible even at the coast. The spare the air alert today. North bay and inland east bay moderate air quality for your sunday. Right now were in that moderate category except for santa rosa, good air quality there. The winds are very light right now, theyll get gusty as we get into the end of the Holiday Weekend. 9 00, 7 o0s and 80s. Mid70s San Francisco. It will be nice at the coast, but you heard about some of the local closures there. By 5 00 it is oppressive heat in our inland valleys, and were looking at just a little bit of relief along the coast tonight. Well talk about how long the heat wave lasts and a red flag warning that goes into effect labor day evening coming up. All right,