Get rid of the smoke and haze. There are too maeasy skies remaining, temperatures are expecting to drop by a few degrees. Of equal pacificare, the mice pacificare will be ringing relative humidity up. The one concern today will be the onshore breeze as it strengthens throughout the course of the afternoon. We will track that. Meanwhile i have a look at your temperatures and your highs and a little bit. Good morning to you, sal. Rosemary, good morning, lets take a look at what we have. I am saying that theres not much going on. That is what i like. Traffic is light almost everywhere. The bay bridge looks good area and no major issues driving across. There have been no problems on interstate 880. We are off to a good start. Lets get back to the headlines. Lets begin with breaking news, where the lane you lightning fire complexes burning in several counties. So far, 193 square miles of burned, an area bigger than the entire city of san jose. We have a map now that shows you where all eigh
Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc7 news. Did you see it or hear it . Thunder and lightning here in San Francisco and across the bay area. Rumbling in the north bay,va, p widespread wildfires. Flashing across the night sky in the east bay, lighting up the oakland skyline. Streaking across the south bay where its blamed for sparking on apartment fire. As someone who grew up on midwestern thunderstorms, it was both intense and unusual here. Yeah, eric. You got that right. Abc7 news meteorologist drew tuma joining us now. Right away with what to expect because, drew, this has been wild weekend of weather. Yeah. Certainly this morning is a morning a lot of us are not going to forget anytime soon. Hundreds of lightning strikes lighting up the morning sky earlier today. Live doppler 7 along with satellite showing you the bay area was basically the bullseye for all of the storm activity. Right now the current lightning strikes are in the sierra. But what is h
South. It is applying a lot of moisture and sending it to Northern California. When it interacts with the heat, it creates the thunderstorms and that will likely happen again overnight tonight. The red flag warning does continue until early tomorrow morning for the threat of more. Well go hour by hour and show you the best chance of finding the storms tomorrow and the heat wave continuing. All right, thanks. Now to developing news on all the problems caused by that severe storm. It knocked out power to thousands. But first to the fires including this one in san jose. Fire crews say line started a fire at a sixunit apartment compx. One person was burned out but no one was hurt. Abc7 News Reporter cornell bernard where there was a grass fire. One has now grown to 300 acres. A fierce summer storm packed a punch overnight bringing this. A nonstop line show to all parts of the bay area. Amazing to see but firefighters say all that lightning combined with extreme heat sparked multiple fires.
Bay area. Our chief meteorologist, bill martin begins coverage with a look at this unusual weather system. Now . Frank, it was. We do see thunder and lightning sometimes in august and september and october on the subtropical moisture moves north but the system, unusual in its aerial coverage. It covered all bay area counties, and lasted a long time. I backed the radar and imagery all the way back up to 2 am this morning. Watch what happens. Look at these Lightning Strikes. I have seen a wave come through like this in the bear area. We all have once every 2 to 3 years. Is going off at the 56 and look what comes right behind it. Another wave, equally as powerful at 6 am and get another wave, two and three waves slide through. Look at this. Hundreds and thousands of Lightning Strikes. Many fires started. An unusual event by just sheer numbers of Lightning Strikes and again, everybody was included. Nobody missed out on this Lightning Storm so you are seeing somes pictures. As i get up to t
This weekend extreme weather is not only causing fires but Power Outages to. Pg e and grid operators say be prepared with the ongoing heat wave. More rolling blackouts could be on the way. Rolling blackouts are not needed tonight. Officials that we could expect them between tomorrow and wednesday. Bill martin joins us now with the latest. It really is. Especially inland where the excessive heat warning in red is going to stay in effect through wednesday. All of this area, including parts of san jose are going to be under an excessive heat warning for the next 48 to 72 hours. The yellow area is an advisory that was to be dropped at about 9 00 tonight. That was extended until 9 00 tomorrow night. These yellow areas, you guys are under heat advisory as we go through tomorrow through the entire day. It should be dropped after that. The fire danger is definitely high. It is hot and we have had lightning strikes. It is fire weather because firestarter easy. It is not firestorm whether. Dont