Streaming on cbsn bay area, we look at the tower camera as we look at the city of san francisco. High winds an extreme fire danger across the bay area. It is monday, october 26 and i am Michelle Griego. , now lets get a check of the weather with mary lee. Good morning. This is the start of the wildfire season. We are looking at strong winterfest with some of the strongest win right now. 31 mile per hour sustained wind. 22 mileperhour sustained at sfo right now. There are 37 mileperhour wind gusts in fairfield. 26 in concord and 29 at sfo. The highest amount with winds at 8090 Miles Per Hour in the highest elevations. We are talking extreme fire danger for the bay area. A red flag warning for the entire region now until 11 00 a. M. Today. Strong offshore winds with low humidity values down to the Single Digits and teens. That is why we have dangerous fire conditions. We will see the wind easing in the lower elevations but still strong in the Higher Elevations. That is why there will be
Until 11 00 a. M. Today. Because of the strong winds and low humidity values down to the Single Digits and teens. We are talking dangerous fire conditions. We will see the winds ease in the lower elevations later today but the mountains and hills will look at the red flag warning until 5 00 p. M. Tuesday for the east bay hills and diablo range. And until 11 00 for the entire range because of gusty wind along with downed trees and power lines with the strong wind. We are watching that through the rest of the morning. I will show you futurecast through the next couple of days coming up in a few minutes. Now, lets check in with gianna for a windy start to the day. It is impacting your drive today with slower than usual conditions in the altamonte pass. There is a wind advisory for the altamonte and the bay area bridges. This out of tracy toward 580 westbound. On 205 and extending beyond north flint at this point. Be careful if you are traveling in a high profile vehicle. There could be tr
It was for sure, strong winds in fact the most powerful offshore winds weve seen so far this wildfire season, pick wind gusts, mount st. Helena topic 89 Miles Per Hour. The Oakland Airport reporting wind gusts as high as 58 Miles Per Hour. Current wind speeds looking at 23 Miles Per Hour sustained out of the north, 10 in napa, 22 for santa rosa and looking at 15 for oakland, 14 in San Francisco and for hayward looking at when gus right now at 30 mileperhour. The red flag warning has now been extended all the way until 5 pm today for the entire bay area as we are looking at that extreme fire danger, dusty conditions, low relative humidity values and for the Higher Elevations, the east bay hills and diablo range, that red flag warning will continue until 5 pm on tuesday, so looking at low relative humidity values down to the Single Digits and teens we have record drive fuel and vegetation so we are looking at dangerous fire weather conditions today into tomorrow. Well talk more about wha
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