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Dangerous fire conditions and pg e power shut offs. A repeat performance of something they have done several times before. But it never gets easier. The winds could be the worst we have seen so far this fire season and expected to move from north to south. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. We have Team Coverage with reporters fanned out across the north bay. We begin with meteorologist. This is serious. Very serious. The conditions were going to be facing tonight are are very similar to th...

Were talking about you know we get so accustomed to talking about how hot its going to be some going to be necessary so hot. But very dry and windy to breezy with all this as well and you heard party talking earlier about the red flag warning theres the Coverage Area the whole day. Waters edge to the inland valleys higher elevations, lower elevations and valleys am through 11 00am on monday gives us a good 24 hours plus on that warning period live shot coming in from half moon bay, russia deal w...

That all cities from santa rosa down to santa cruz and gilroy are under a red flag warning tonight, coastal regions, Santa Cruz Mountains and lower valleys are also under a redflag warning but that runs through 11 oclock tomorrow morning. Pg e has already turned off the power to 225,000 customers across the state with 136,000 more expected to lose power at some point tonight and the power is already off in the north bay. The areas marked here in purple that with that triangle thats the places th...

Right now were bringing in Lawrence Karnow laurent, yeah guys were defeat now of fire season kind of a scary weekend ahead were going to see these winds. Come and go several times throughout the week so the National Weather service has already issued redflag warning that begins at 11 oclock tonight in the north bay mountains you can see areas in brown these where theyve issued some watches beginning on wednesday. Thats because were likely going to see these turn red flag warnings as we get the m...

Thousands of customers. Low humidity, record dry vegetation. Another night of critical fire weather. Good evening, everyone. A red flag warning is now in effect for the entire bay area, and most of Northern California. We have five Team Coverage on the fire danger. Pg e has already cut firepower to thousands of customers. Amber has more on how people are preparing to evacuate if necessary. Bill martin is tracking conditions. He is among those who have lost power. It is really coming on. The wind...

Hills, northeast gusts could be anywhere from 20 to 40 miles an hour. Relative humidity is dry, current check of the winds up to 37 miles an hour. Mount st. Helena, and mount diablo, 38 mile an hour gusts, theyre strong. Air quality is moderate. Not a spare the air alert today, but theres an advisory and we go in the right direction tomorrow. Winds will shift offshore to onshore later on today but just at the surface. Temperatures right now, 68 in mt. Diablo, 68 in walnut creek. Down the road, H...

And mt. Diablo, 29 mile an hour wind gusts above a thousand feet, mt. Tam, 22 miles an hour. So the low relative humidity and the dry conditions out there, good thing, though, the air quality isnt bad. We are looking at those warm numbers, in the upper elevations, 60s and 70s. But Half Moon Bay has cooled to 54. It is 50 in nevada. Look at that santa rosa, down to 49 degrees. Anywhere from two to 27 degrees cooler this morning. So without those east winds blowing as strong, yes, the temperatures...

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66, 55, though, in gilroy. And a look from east bay hills camera, the camera is shaking, upper elevation winds are above 25 miles an hour. 55 in a napa. 48 in santa rosa. We are colder, look at this, 23 degrees cooler along the coast, due to the lightning of the offshore flow. Once the offshore flow backs off temperatures can cool, the nights are longer. But in the upper elevations, yes, it is still breezy. We will get a sea breeze later on today. From our exploratorium camera, looks nice out th...