Were talking about you know we get so accustomed to talking about how hot its going to be some going to be necessary so hot. But very dry and windy to breezy with all this as well and you heard party talking earlier about the red flag warning theres the Coverage Area the whole day. Waters edge to the inland valleys higher elevations, lower elevations and valleys am through 11 00am on monday gives us a good 24 hours plus on that warning period live shot coming in from half moon bay, russia deal with some cloud cover in even some localized fog in some areas to take the elevator fog a little bit. Bay area not too off the upper 50s going on the east bay shoreline 40s up to the north bay 54 San Francisco, 53 going on for can also for san jose giving you comparison sake, were a little cooler along the peninsula and up to the north bay. A little warmer in the east bays you can see by a couple degrees here. All right a wakeup forecast keeps some of those clouds and a little bit in the way that
Catholic church which is serving as a Community Resource center. Here they have a water snacks, wi fi and much more of course charging stations as well but just a mile down the road were starting to see those power shutoffs in full swing. Pg and e customers in napa county prepared for a Public Safety power shutoff wednesday evening for some folks in saint the shutdowns already begin people like pat mcgrail foot up several gas cans to get through the next couple of days, im gasoline for generators. I have my house and my neighbors house. She lights going. Weve had to clean out the refrigerator which is a horrible job. And then be able to run them again and the generators. Were on wells so we have no water. And to go good. Water she could flush something the girls all too familiar with. He had to evacuate for the lnu lightning complex fire and was evacuated again for 17 days with the more recent glassfire he lives off Glass Mountain road or power was already down from the fire no cable.
East bay will be windy at times maybe some gusts over 30 Miles Per Hour down below the 4050 up above already started to see a change in the winds and youll see numbers running in the 2030 mile an hour range across the north bay mountains right now the 31 right now that lets be 33 so discreet 27 spanish flat, so these winds start to ramp up and then notice the direction too coming out of a northerly direction that is that very dry hot wind now developing looks like it will intensify overnight tonight. You see all the color of the Central Valley start to see the winds picking up already. This is going to kind of settle in overnight tonight into early tomorrow morning. So you can see a lot of colors, the red even some purple beginning to show up those are gusts over 40 maybe 50 Miles Per Hour. Now as we head to the middle of the day tomorrow love the winds are going to move a little further to the south so stay blustery in the north bay, but i think picking up in places like the oakland h
Experiencing of the week conditions that were bracing for on sunday and so that is obviously in our favor right now. I know that if this fire started on sunday night things would be vastly different we talk all the time daniel give us some perspective i know all red flag warnings are not created equal how bad it is this one thats coming sunday night monday. Well we definitely dont want to sound like a broken record as we have been in and out of red flag for the last several last several weeks and really the last several months this wind event that we are expecting to see on sunday will bring a extremely strong winds winds that we have not really experience this fire season in fact the last time we saw winds this magnitude and this widespread really in the 2017 and north bay fires so when the tubbs fire yeah was fires burning in sonoma and napa counties and we know how destructive those result so yeah, definitely its been a destructive year definitely bracing for what could be the stron
Making sure that you are prepared. Gayle ong has in orinda where theyre bracing for the strong wind event dan thorn is insane alina where theyre already dealing with a brush fire there, but we start tonight with chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow to give us a better idea of what we can expect lawrence guys this looks like a significant wind event may be the strongest of the year maybe several years were going see how all works out. But right now it looks very very impressive. The winds, fairly light right now just a general breeze around the bay area but watch what happens as we take you through the weekend now as those winds by tomorrow morning, not bad just a gentle breeze early on so not a bad start your weekend by tomorrow afternoon, the winds do begin to pick up but you notice the direction that is out of a westerly direction that brings that nice moist air off the ocean so fire danger running fairly low that all begins to as we get in towards sunday afternoon. And there you can