The bay area, richmond in downtown oakland set records while san jose it happened they match their previous high temperatures. Good evening. Im ken wayne and im pam moore, a heat advisory remains in effect until 9 oclock tomorrow night. The extreme heat along with the windy and dry conditions forcing power shut offs or thousands of people in the bay area we have Team Coverage tonight on the heat advisory Taylor Bisacky live in the east bay where people are in the dark tonight because of the power shut off but first lets head over to the Weather Center where our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is standing by lauras the fire danger still exists. Yeah weve seen these kind of come in waves pam, we see these impulses one came through this morning and then it picked up in the afternoon over parts of the east bay now going to watch those winds ramp up again tonight youre seen highpressure already in place now weve seen those offshore winds, it felt the heat out there and certainly some ve
Start to actually really calm to close out this friday. And thats the way were going to stay through saturday and sunday too much calmer conditions. So that is actually helping a lot with the heightened fire potential that we had been seeing 60s 70s, even a couple of 80s on the map this morning and those areas where winds are president helping to keep those areas like berkeley and saint helene on the warm side in the low 80s fairfield conquered in oakland also quite warm at 77 degrees. Well alameda 82 right now so were already to a warm start and its going to be a hot finish to the day a whole lot like yesterday. Couple of triple digits on the maps close to triple digits for a lot of the bay area once you head inland up into the mid 90s upper 90s on average inland. 90s right along the bay and even some upper 80s towards the coast, ive got more details on what exactly to expect all through this weekend still to come robin all right sounds good. Thank you for the update john now lets upd
Lunchtime. Still breezy enough as you can notice though just not as windy as this morning as and winds remaining with us enough into the early evening that yeah, fire danger is still of concern today, especially when youre talking temperatures as warm as we will have them again. 60s 70s and even some 80s to kick off this morning. Berkeley conquered Fairfield Beach at 77 degrees falling out of the 80s in berkeley just minutes ago. Alameda at 75 right now. Later todays daytime highs still in the upper 90s inland, mid 90s by the bay and some mid 80s right along the coastline. Robin. All right, thank you for the update lets update the morning commute which is off to a very quiet start to like what i see out there and checking the drive into San Francisco. So lets take a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza there it is traffic nice and smooth here at the pay gates easy going across the upper deck and no major issues there downtown San Francisco, heres 92. Its our busiest yes, we have a bi
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
That fire dangers of concern as temperatures begin to climb back up into the 90s and in some cases, even a couple of triple digits. Temperatures right now look at these Half Moon Bay at 81 degrees saint helena there too. These are not anomalies but these are some of our windy areas that that air is getting mixed in and youre also seeing really dry conditions in these areas and its that pairing of a windy dry and hot that does have fire concern so high even during these Morning Hours more starting things off warm enough already by the afternoon. Its just downright hot with upper 90s inland, mid 90s by the bay and solid 80s near the coast by robin. All right john lets check in on the traffic, the only issue we have on 92 is the Maintenance Work thats underway to its not in the commute direction, its actually eastbound. So theyve taken away one lane which leads to its a tight squeeze, but no major delays it will just be a little congested approaching this closure right before the toll pla