Reporter Paul Lowenthal is the assistant fire marshal at the fire house. They have been positioned so if a fire does break out, they can quickly respond in order to keep the fires from spreading. But he says the big concern is the wind going to the property below and also reaching in the areas. We have three years of regrowth, so there is a lot of seasonal grasses and brush that is regrown, and that area does remain a concern for us. Reporter according to lowenthal, because pg e have reduced the amount of customers who will have their power cut, it means more energized lines which can pose a risk. Part of our planning is knowing that our city will remain energized, so that has us on high alert. There is the potential that we could have fires as a result of high power lines. They spent the week clearing their house, garage and attic. They say its going to be a tough season. Were exhausted. Today i spent more time cutting down more grasses, raking up more leaves. Its just its overwhelmin
Yet another string of high winds dry conditions over the next couple of days. Thanks for being with us at 10 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis for the north bay mountains, this is the second red flag warning to be issued this week so lets go ahead kick it off here with chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow he is tracking the dangerous weather conditions out there for us laurent boy it is been a long fire season right now theres no end in sight in fact these winds going to be picking up in fact i think these are red flag warnings are in effect so far feel friday but theyre going to be in effect all the way i think until the weekend weve got a series of wind events that are going to be affecting the bay area and boy it is going to howl around parts of the bay area. Look at the winds expected over the Santa Cruz Mountains this between now and friday, the red flag warnings up even along the coastline, 3040 mile an hour wind gusts probably some 50 mile an hour wind gusts o
About 37,000 customers. Across 15 Northern California counties that they could be losing power. Of the 15 counties 5 hour here in the bay, they are alameda contra costa Napa Santa Clara and sonoma. More than 4,000 customers in the bay area could be affected here. Napa county appears to be hit the hardest the most customers in the bay area affected are in napa some of the outages have already started but most of them are expected as we move through the overnight hours pg and e says the hot and dry weather combined with really high wind gusts pose an increased risk for damage to their electrical system that has the potential to start fires can you want to be on guard. We have Team Coverage for you tonight, Lawrence Karnow is in the Weather Center. Monitoring the red flag warning that goes into effect in about an hour but first we turn to kron fours gayle ong who is live tonight in where people are preparing for another round of shut off scale. Grant and vicki nearly 3300 pg e customers a
Come. Thank you for starting your weekend with us. Im kira klapper. Vianey arana joins us with your microclimate forecast and you said today is the day to enjoy and to prepare for tomorrow. Absolutely. Its going to be a lovely afternoon. I mean, mostly sunny. Seasonable temperatures, but by tomorrow thats all going to change. So definitely take advantage today. Mostly Clear Conditions right now. Couple of straggling clouds here and there. 53 degrees in san jose. Current temperatures really in the 50s throughout a chilly 40 degrees in napa which is something that we really havent seen in a while. We have been seeing above seasonable temperatures and this is the reason why were under a microclimate weather alert. We want to make sure youre prepared and in anticipation of whats to come and thats headed into sunday afternoon two red flag warnings kicks in. First at 11 00 in the east bay hills and then a second one that kicks in for the Higher Elevations. Details in a minute. We look forwar
Pale more the increase in temperatures also bringing the increased risk of fire danger tonight, utility leaders have been going back and forth on whether or not to turn off the power to mitigate the chance of a possible wildfire outbreak we have Team Coverage tonight noelle bellow has more on cal iso is latest developments and dan thorn has reaction from residents who were left in the dark last night but first happening tonight, a red flag warning will go into effect at 11 oclock tonight it will last until tomorrow morning at 11 across the bay area. Monterey and san benito counties are already in a red flag warning fast moving storms can lead to a risk of dry lightning which could start wildfires. So not only is the fire danger really increase our fuel is already the critical level or grass crops you see in the hills are already a groundout or brush component now a very critical levels lower than weve seen in years and our timber component is right behind it so that makes the latter fu