Orinda with more dan. Well this is literally the calm before the storm right now there is absolutely no wind at this point but theyre expecting gusts up to 50 Miles Per Hour in this region and other regions throughout the bay area beginning tomorrow night that coupled with possibly triple digit heat has firefighters on alert. As the sun bear down on Contra Costa County friday winds remain calm with temperatures in the 70s. But come this weekend a recipe for disaster high temps low humidity and winds gusting to 50 Miles Per Hour. Looking at very high fire danger and as you point out. We got an awful lot of dry fuel out thats just waiting to burn it was last october when Contra Costa County experienced similar conditions. And had a fire siege, 10 major fires and 15 hours including one that jumped the carquinez bridge. Sleep with one eye open. Those who live in Contra Costa County have been through this before and are ready, we know or pc is and all of our personal documents and should be
The news station. Youre watching kron 4 news at 9. Now at night taking a live look over downtown San Francisco tonight, beautiful, yes, but we are bracing for a weekend heat wave that is expected to be felt across the bay area. Good evening. Everybody thanks for being here at 9 oclock, im grant lotus and im Justine Waldman in for Vicki Liviakis tonight, the hot and dry weather could put us at risk for some fire sparking again over the weekend, a red flag warning is going into Effect Tomorrow here we go this is a look at how hot is expected to get tomorrow. Not really all that bad but saturday isnt the worst of it not by any stretch. Our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is with us now for more on what the brace for large yeah, this really just the beginning tomorrow, yeah, not to bet is to get toasty inland 90s there. Then we get into sunday, we really start to crank up the heat near triple digits in spots inland by sunday, 80s a few 90s even and around the bay 70s even out toward th
Away tonight, were learning the tragic details of how loved one spent their final days together. Good evening and thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 8 oclock im Justine Waldman vicki is off tonight, im grant lotus dangerously high temperatures are expected to blanket the bay area this weekend prompting the National Weather service to issue a red flag warning. They get a live look outside right now at downtown San Francisco. Its not just the heat that were worried about even though it is a lovely friday night out there right now indeed were expected to get real serious winds gusts of more than 40 Miles Per Hour chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is here with the details arent yet here we go guys were in fall on this that time of year we get a peak fire season temperatures going to be heating up lets take a look at those numbers tomorrow are up in the 90s inland 70s and 80s inside the bay and 60s not a bad start your weekend. Then we start to crank up the temperatur
Tonight, right this is true and also getting much hotter tomorrow to just kind of like a late summer day today but boy taking the gloves off by tomorrow, good morning morning, good morning, everybody. Live shot comes in from the golden gate not much of a breeze, although we expect an offshore wind to develop even noticeably here as we go into the weekend live shot coming in from the bay bridge toll plaza with the sun just about to join us over the east bay hills Temperature Check right now we have those lower 60s lining up the east bay shoreline up to the north bay, a mixture of 50s and 60s for comparisons sake we little warmer up there in the north and a good chunk of the east bay around midday, were just a touch cooler today not getting on to that red flag warning, heres the Coverage Area right over the east bay hills of those winds being offshore about 20 to 35 Solano County will be hit particularly hard which will be showing you this all kicking in about 9 oclock tonight being with
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.