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Be early and more often folks have been experiencing this california the last couple of years. Good evening, everyone, im Catherine Heenan in for Vicki Liviakis tonight, im grant lotus thank you for being with us tonight for kron 4 news at 8 oclock fire Officials Say theyre cautiously optimistic tonight after dodging a major Lightning Storm and we begin with an overview of the 3 major lightning complex fires that are burning in the bay have been for about a week now 5 people have died in the lnu lightning complex thats burning in solano napa sonoma lake end yolo countys 5 people have been injured meanwhile and the scu lightning complex thats in contra costa. And Alameda Santa clara as well among others we have also learned that fires there have scorched. More than 360,000 acres making it. The second largest in california state history in terms of acreage more than 351,000 acres meanwhile have in the north bay making the l a new fire the 3rd largest in california history. And its easy y
Its a little hazy out there and it is all across the bay area. Air quality suffering now for the north bay, the east bay and the south bay with pour conditions in all these areas again you are immediately going to notice that smell smoke as you wake up this morning. Its going to be the first thing thats changed from yesterday as far as what you do notice skies are dry all across the region and we do have relatively calm winds for most areas this is the positive factor here we have wildfires burning in eastern Contra Costa County amid what is generally some calmer winds overnight winds picking up today though of course these napa blazes as well very dry conditions up here lower humidity than what we had been seeing winds mostly out of the west and then multiple fires burning closer to the south to including in Santa Cruz County up in the Santa Cruz Mountains so a lot of smoke being put up it is going to be another hot one not sure ideal day to be spending much time outside definitely fi
Temperatures are coming down a little bit but of course youre adding smoke into today. And thats just going make conditions all the worse you can see outside here. This is a picture from up in guerneville sent in from a viewer up there. Greg potter that smoke just being put into the sky around sunset last night you can see those smoke plumes across the bay area and the impact from them very evident. This morning, poor air quality for most parts of the bay are best towards the coastline but even then youre still looking at sinking air and making for some poor air quality there as well so this is not your ideal situation for spending much time outside this wednesday use it as an excuse to stay indoors, stay cool, especially if you have respiratory conditions you dont want to be doing too much. We have fire burning in eastern Contra Costa County still putting up smoke in that region also some fairly breezy conditions through the delta around oakley in brentwood this morning, north bay, mu
Grant lotus. And im Vicki Liviakis thanks for joining us for kron 4 news at 8 the highly unusual sight all across the bay area skies. Its just better. All people are talking about today indeed taking a live look outside right now across the bay from the bay bridge to the Golden Gate Bridge. The san mateo bridge to the richmond sandra fell bridge. It looks normal right now, but all day. It was just about as dark run for chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow begins our Team Coverage explaining. What weve been witnessing in how long the skies could stay like this lawrence whats going on yet let my entire life here in california have never seen a day like today wake up to the orange skies and certainly. Was concern looking at the maps though you can see where it came from not the more fires locally but number we have the paradise fire a few years back that but all the smoke in the bay area will now weve got another fire near theyre called the bear fire. Weve also got the august complex and t