Neurologist paul heggen, on white is red flag warning is so concerning. We had this red flag warning early in the week i have been saying is a kind of borderline scenarios. The wind is going to be very strong. We check out those forecast numbers are just a second but a live look right now come from the foothills east of san jose, just look at your screen right now, everything is very, very dry. We are talking record levels in terms of how dry the fire fuels are, which is an additional problem in terms of how the weather is going to make things worse. Relative humidity level from future cast in the beginning sunday afternoon, you can see them dropping into the teens and parts of the north bay, the numbers keep getting lower and lower as we had through sunday evening and especially sunday night, into early monday morning. As the dry offshore wind, i mean, monday, to clock in the morning, committee levels should be well over 50 , they will be 5 to 10 for the north bay, and inland in the e
In the bay area are in the dark this afternoon pg and e has turned off the power to prevent wildfires during this critical fire weather. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im Justine Waldman 24 counties in the state are affected including several counties here in the bay area. So lets take a look out pg es outage map this is the latest information all the purple triangles are the affected areas. Thats where the power is currently out. Here in the bay area customers in alameda contra costa napa san Mateo Santa Clara santa cruz solano and sonoma counties are without power right now we can see that from the map. Pg says some customers may not see the power back on until 10 oclock tomorrow night. So we want to check now on just how hot and windy it is outside kron fours meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez is here now shes tracking the latest temperatures for us good afternoon, the breeze its hot out there mixed really hard especially along the coast and the east bay shor
Theres a red flag warning so we have to watch out for more fires threats as we go through the weekend more bad air in the bay area and were looking at more damage the entire city of calistoga has been evacuated calistoga still okay but everybody had to get out your kron fours will tran has been driving around there for us this morning giving us boots on the ground, a first person perspective and will what are you seeing this morning. I see the flames are right behind the same house that ive been showing you since 5 oclock in the morning. We have a location the firefighters tell me this is tucker road off a highway 29 about a mile from calistoga so this is your home. It is fine for now they have dozens of firefighters and i just stepped out you can clearly see there your backyard. Right now theyre actually laying down some Fire Fighting fire with fire creating a line and how hunting is this james and darya theyre saying right now the fire is playing nice so theyre keeping a close eye on
Much tougher for them so you can see theres a canister in his hand right there theyve been setting fires along this hillside and heres what theyre doing its genius they actually started at the top of the hill and started walking down the hill closer to the home meanwhile they were just doing it keeping a close eye in case it erupted they have their hoses on the ground ready to go. Let me show you give you an education on firefighting because he was giving me an education yulia sevens and i look at how the fire burned itself out you can see the smoke right there, theyre saying thats because the humidity level is high so they set it on fire. They watch it and then it burns itself out, but he had they done at noon it would not have burned itself out and therefore could have gotten closer. So the home, so thats why they do a lot of heavy lifting with the humidity level is up and the overnight hours. You can see just how smoky the conditions are embers flying everywhere. Trees are falling d
Flag warning for the next hour. Live doppler 7. The Higher Elevations are experiencing the gusty winds. They could be anywhere from 25 to 35 miles an an an an 13 to maybe 20 miles an hour, will continue to weaken throughout the day but looking at poor air quality in the north bay and inland east bay, impacts from the wildfire smoke, also a spare the air alert today with current check temperatures cooler this morning, where the glass fire is at relative humidity coming up a bit to 24 . Winds southsouthwest moist flow, 2 to 4 miles an hour. Instead of the mid and upper 90s, just about 90 inland today and lower 80s around the bay. So today begins a more widespread cooling trend with a lot of fog and a sea breeze at the coast to start but then things will get sunny there. Well talk about the cooldown threat weve had and rain coming our way on friday. Liz . Lisa, well cross our fingers for that, t President Trumps battle with coronavirus coming in this morning. A group of the president s su