The bay area and beyond so many viewers, sharing pictures and videos like these today, thank you so much for sending them in helping us understand the scope of this problem, the smoky air mostly coming from wildfires, burning north of us. Yes for the air alert spanning woodburning as you can imagine is going to be in effect through at least friday now in the bay areas thick smoke from wildfires continues to envelop the region creating this orange hazy sky businesses is the 25th straight day. The air district is issued a spare the air alert. And here to explain the Science Behind all the weird colors out there Lawrence Karnow the guys just when i thought this is going to be kind of a slow weather day done with all the heat waves and everything else. Here we go one of the strangest days ive ever experienced in weather waking up to the orange skies outside. And all that smoke coming down from the fires and certainly it moved along want to push on through bringing with a lot of smoke not f
Skies blanket the bay area from dawn till dusk. Thanks for joining u. S. Attorney and everybody high Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus certainly surreal lot of people saying these ominous skies were in a way stunning yet certainly. Unsettling to wake up to hard to know what time it was all day long want to check in first with our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow. Obviously everyones wondering lawrence is going to happen again tomorrow. Yeah i think well start to see some improvement tomorrow were not going to see asked smoky conditions around the bay area but certainly. Theyll still be some smoke out there we had those north northeasterly winds remember were talking about the high fire danger yesterday, were worried about the real gusty winds. Well, those winds didnt cause or sparking fires around the bay area but we did have a fires that were already burning in far Northern California up you county near paradise they another fire burning there the bear fire lot of smoke filtering i
Look at still winds across the region all the smoke is going to start start to settle down in the bay and that means worsening air quality likely over the next couple of days that smoke is of being pushed anywhere because winds have calmed down so much right now were in the 50s and 60s for your current temperatures with a word in oakland at 63. Concord and Fairfield Beach at 58 while dublin and livermore 57 to kick off this morning. As we look at wind speeds across the bay area you see how calm things are that northerly flow that brought us the smoke, its all but gone at this point. Now we just have a weak onshore. Wind that is pushing in just a touch of fog at the coast. That likely has a bit of smoke imbedded in as well as we do look at calm winds that smoke is it going to be pushed anywhere else so now its just settled right here in the bay area meaning likely to be hazy skies well through the afternoon. These hazy skies. Theyre going to keep temperatures cool way cooler than we hav
7 is giving us that shot in san jose. So when the sun comes up. Weve got you covered, yeah and masks masks masks covering you today because the bad air quality john what expect. Yeah i agree we need those mass today youve been wearing in many ways, but today were going to have significant ash falling from the sky even if you can smell the smoke. So the mask will be very helpful and yes as we make our way through the next hour or so well see eventually what you those skies eventually do take what we are looking at is going to be a darker a smoky day much like yesterday smoke is a little bit lower in the horizon than yesterday its gradually sunk been very slow in doing so though so for some parts of San Francisco. Youre not quite smelling it yet. As that marine layer was still president overnight. Even in areas with slightly better air quality you still need that mask because we do have ash if you had your car outside overnight youre seeing it having settled on your car and as you step o
Very foggy its a mix of both now even though it might not smell so bad for your area we are still looking at poor air quality as we see ash falling from the hazy layer above us. You dont want to be breathing that in so of course the Face Covering will be as helpful as possible as you are venturing outside now why is it so smoky when we had our fires a couple weeks ago and thats when they were really expanding and now theyve come down. Well we had strong winds from the north a couple days ago that resulted in rapid spread of fires on the northern end of the state and the smoke from those fires just drifting down our way since winds have calmed down now that haze that smoke a sitting with us and gradually sinking yesterday the hazy layer was above us so any sort of light that hit that he is the lair pass through it with just the red remaining today the grey sinks and now were looking at a whole different hue entirely as you see outside your window this morning, 50s and 60s for current te