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Bay area as well creating more moderate air. Right now its the lack of fog and warm temperatures. 69 in oakland. 66 in santa rosa. Were in the 70s in concord. 70 in livermore. 85 in los gatos. Half moon bay 55 degrees. Compared to yesterday, already 6 to 12 degrees of warming, that sun comes up at 6 44, thats important because we get our coolest temperatures about an hour after sunrise. We have about another two hours of cooling to go to lose maybe a degree or two. After that, numbers coming up. Good air quality so far for the most part, except for fremont and down by santa cruz, where it is moderate and of course our excessive heat warnings continues until 9 00 tomorrow with our heat advisory along the coast and once again, we are looking at potential records so a spare the air alert today, poor air quality inland and south bay, by 9 00, well into the 80s. Look at 1 00, we are 107 san ramon. How about 109 in gilroy, by 5 00 and well look for another very toasty day for labor day. Well
Im liz kreutz. Today is the 20th straight spare the air alert for the bay area and lets get right to meteorologist lisa argen with a look at what we can expect today. Good morning, lisa. Good morning, liz. Hi, everyone. More sizzling temperatures, certainly records will be shattered. We look at live doppler 7, nothing to speak about here. As we widen the view, thats a Lightning Strike just north of shaver lake from the fire there, the creek fire. Those pyro cumulus clouds high in the atmosphere creating their own weather and you can see the smoke by reno there, looking at some very poor air quality in the mountains. Our air quality expected to go down as well. 67 san mateo. It is 78 in daly city. 55 Half Moon Bay with 70s in san rafael. 60s in the north bay. Low 70s in the south bay. 7 to 12 degrees warmer than yesterday at this our. Air quality in the moderate category for most and looking at some of that smoke to drift into the bay area on some lighter winds. Excessive heat warning u
And livermore and san jose and it will be a hot day around the bay, 90 in San Francisco, 94 in oakland and the low 80s along the coast. There are excessive heat warnings that can be for the rest of the bay area and another spare the air alert, a record 21 days in a row. And a red flag warning that starts from 10 00 tonight until 8 00 wednesday for the Higher Elevations, wind gusts up to 50 miles an hour as we go through tonight and wednesday. We will talk all about this coming up in just a few minutes. As we look at the roadways, if you are getting ready to go outside , or laboring on a labor day, youre good to go. We started with a serious crash along 80 and midway. That has been cleared and the commute is pretty easy towards the bay bridge. You can see our short, once you get to the bay bridge, there are no delays into San Francisco. All our travel times, especially the Allatoona Pass commute, are in the clear. Because of the labor day, there are a lot of changes to Public Transit. A
Specifically how much homeowners will be getting, a judge must approve the deal within 90 days. Time is 4 31 this morning. Were getting a quick look at weather and traffic where you live. Youre never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. That means you, mike. Lets talk about whats going on. Live doppler 7, havent heard any reports of mr. Drizzle yet. If you do run into some of that, frances and i would love to know so we can spread it around on social media and let everybody else know. We will cool a few degrees from where we are right now. Notice temperatures stay in the 60s at the coast, all day today. Noon in the mid 70s. Pretty comfortable with slow clearing like we had yesterday. 77 to 83 under a mostly sunny sky away from the coast. Low to mid 70s, very comfortable evening on the way. Lets jump backo frances. Check out these traffic maps. All green out there right now except for a little stretch out of Trump Administration see, westbound 205, its under the sp