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Couple of hours. Well go ahead and get a look at the air quality. You can see as weve headed through today, as you look off toward the distance, you can see that smoke. It is cloudy. The sky has that orange haze in it, but its not necessarily in the very unhealthy air range right here in the bay area. So as you look at these live air quality monitoring sites, the only spot now thats tipped into the unhealthy category is napa. Otherwise its good in San Francisco, moderate for most of the bay area, and a few spots that are unhealthy for sensitive groups right now. So i want to talk more about the smoke and why were seeing it off towards the distance but were not necessarily smelling it as bad as it looks. And it all has to do with three different fires surrounding the bay area. We have one off to the north, the august complex, the one near fresno, the creek fire, and then the dolan fire off to the south. So with all of these fires, t ....
Jose, we are very unhealthy. Whats the problem with this smoke . Why cant we get it to clear out . A couple of things we are looking at here. The main thing is the wind. The surface wind is taking the smoke. Continually smoke from the north to the south that past several days. The winds are relatively light. Lets take it one step further. I think this is really going to explain this for us. It is all about whats known as an in versiversion layer. It is warm air higher up in the atmosphere. Then on top of that you have some cooler air surfacing thats pushing the air right on down towards ground level. So we have High Pressure producing this and colder air at the surface and all of that thats getting stuck down here across the bay area. But, i am tracking two different systems thatll help potentially stir up the air. Well have more details on that coming up in about 15 minutes. Very good graphic. Good explanation, jeff. It is an eye ....
Afternoon. Theyre in santa clara. Today the team did practice in the midst of the smoke. They say they can practice and be out there if the air quality is below 200. Right now as a point of reference its 199. The nfl says it will make a decision by tomorrow. Its been quite a week and likely going to be quite a weekend. Heres what it looked like today across the bay area. The smoke so thick it looks like really heavy fog but as we know its not. For comparison heres what it looked like yesterday on all these same cameras. A lot more yellow, a lot more orange before were seeing all that gray today. And we all remember wednesday the orange skies that felt like we were simply on another planet. Lets bring in our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. I know its hard to forecast this with the smoke, but what are you seeing in the next 48 hours . Were seeing that unhealthy to very unhealthy air is going to remain with us based on all the information i have right now. There are some changes ahead t ....
Res have already azed through the state. More than 3 million acres have burned in 2020. Surpassing the previous record, set in 2018. Nearly 15,000 firefighters are battling 28 major blazes e. Ross the st they have also claimed at least 12 lives. But amid the destpoction comes unity, guided by science, San Jose State University has just inaugurated a new Wildfire Research center. The largest one of its kind in the nation. The scientists span a range of disciplines from meteorology, to ecology to a social science. They are pioneering new niols and tees to better study, predict, and adapt to living with wildfires. Joining me now by skype is craig clements, the director of plthe wildfire interdisary research center, and a professor of meteorology at San Jose State University. Also joining us from san ....