Of our mornings in a whole lot brighter than weve been as well. Air quality has improved because of an ice, a sea breeze that has pushed steadily in the past few days we are seeing low clouds at the coast. So do watch some foggy spots out there, but dont have to watch so closely air quality today as we see good to moderate conditions all across the board only a couple of moderate pockets remaining so get out there and enjoy what will be a very nice one for definitely breathing easy 50s and 60s for your current temperatures with 67 right now in oakland, San Francisco and berkeley in the low 60s, little cooler up in the north bay im talking what to expect today and for the weekend ahead of us to still to come. Robin. Thank you john its quite busy on some of our bridges the bay bridge 80 west, its recovering from 2 earlier crashes so its still quite slow. Its still backed up through the bottom of the maze so just get out there early if you plan on heading into San Francisco because youre
San jose and 75 in oakland and 68 for San Francisco. So right around where we should be for this time of year. With offshore winds kicking foweekend, and to early next week, we have critical fire weather conditions. A red flag warning is now in effect as we look to saturday 9 00 p. M. Until monday at 8 00 a. M. For the north bay mountains and east bay hills and valleys due to gusts up to 35 to 50 Miles Per Hour. And low relative humidity values. You will be watching this very closely for you as we head into the weekend. Now lets check in with gianna for a look at traffic on this friday morning. Hey, good morning. Taking a look at the roadways, its still pretty slow into the Altamont Pass, we starun right at grant line. All lanes are now open. But a bit of backup continues out of tracy. Heading into the area. Plus theres a wind advisory in effect. So extra careful as you are traveling through there. The drive times though looking at lot better. 39 minutes now to go from 205 over to 680.
Effect lets get straight to the maps you can get an idea of who is affected and let me tell you basically the whole bay areas under this red flag warning you can see in the map most of the barriers that pink which means the red flag warning is in effect one this afternoon for the glass fire region in the north bay as we said earlier can be very difficult for firefighters up there facing these high winds and high temps east bay hills and Santa Cruz Mountains the last time we saw a red flag warning the class fire erupted over the weekend. So now more than ever its time to take this seriously. Theyre going to be northwest winds of 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour with gusts of 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour. We also have dry conditions throughout the whole bay area with low humidity which is a recipe for a wildfire. Scary to think that another one can or ups we have to do everything we can. To help out theres a power flex alert going into effect at 3 this afternoon youre being asked to conserve electrici
Access 92, you dont have to wiggle your way through some slow traffic because of an earlier crash so 80 south close to 38 to 10 a son thats where a crash clear to the shoulder but that slowing you down if youre trying to access the san mateo bridge, the bay bridge looking good moving well no delays into San Francisco. This is what we like to see right 10 minutes off to fremont street back to you, thanks a lot now lets get to the big story that weve been following more businesses get to open outdoors in Contra Costa County. Yes, however there is still of course the bad air that john was talking about so its an head of a double edged sword crop of anti maybe not the best time they know will tran. Out of walnut creek this morning with the latest on the story will. They just cant catch a break rate theyve been waiting for so long to reopen get their customers back into their business unfortunately the bad air quality so if you are coming back to the businesses youll have to be outside. We
Meteorologist Lawrence Karnow begins our Team Coverage with specifics on just how hot it could get and searing heat around the bay area, not just your normal he way we see go to a 100 to maybe 103 degrees were talking maybe a 110 maybe even warmer in some spots breaking down your temperatures along the coastline, even heat advisory stated in orange here in effect even up toward the beaches, Half Moon Bay pacifica daly city youre in that heat advisory, but you do see temperatures mainly in the 70s and the 80s well above the average. But rather reasonably compared to the rest the bay area you can see just over the hill 90s maybe some triple digit heat in redwood city the south bay talking temperatures as high as a 104 degrees and then you get the east bay and were really going to get cooking youll see in place like new work in san lorenzo a cast valley but then as you get into Pleasanton Livermore tomorrow topping out about a 105 maybe a 110 by sunday similar temperatures to be found in