rob mayeda is joining us now. what's happening in there impacts us down here? >> yeah, changing winds. at least short term it should help us with the air quality which got extremely hazy around the bay area today. >> you are seeing so a little bit of haze in san jose. >> moderate air quality at 65 degrees. we'll take you over to livermore. >> still pretty mild. we are in the mid-90s. oakland, you got temperatures cooling in the foggy winds. san francisco, currently at 60 degrees, west wind at 15. the wind direction is the key component of our forecast now through the middle part of the week. those are wind coming in on shore and which will bring patchy clouds. combination of f over the north bay and east bay, 50 and low 60s to start. temperatures tomorrow, low 90s. 82 in san jose, still 90s. around morgan hill. >> 80 in palo alto. >> our temperatures in the low to middle east. it will take the spoke that you wake ip to, looks like the evening commute there from the smoke. >> the problem for those fires that's burning off to the north and east that's going to pr

meteorologist rob mayeda joins us this morning with a look as we are under a microclimate weather alert because of the air. >> due to the smoky skies giving an extra orange glow to the morning, in san jose, you see the view, 64 degrees. warm to start off the morning around the santa clara valley. more of the smoke around walnut creek. it's 62. as kira mentioned some fog closer to san francisco and sfo to the south right now. golden gate bridge disappearing into those low clouds, currently at 58 degrees. so the areas of smoke we're seeing may decrease slightly as the sea breeze picks up just along the immediate coast but notice how the north bay and the inland east bay likely still seeing the unhealthy for sensitive group levels. it may not be until late tomorrow monday around 7:00 before the smoke does clear out. today's highs near 90s, close to 100 around the tri-valley of course 70 and 80s from san francisco to oakland. more about the cooling trend in our seven-day forecast and when that better air quality arrives coming up in about 12 minutes. back to you. >> i look forward to hearin

air quality advisory issued for tomorrow, meteorologist rob mayeda, the smoke not done yet. >> repriever the weekend, then blue guys and upper level smoke dropping in from the north. most of the bay area seeing good to moderate quality but we'll see another orange or red sunrise as more smoke comes in from winds down the coast tomorrow afternoon. marin and sonoma county. then might see unhealthy for sensitive groups around napa and solano county. north bay and inland east bay, mild temperatures but in addition to smoke could be seeing heat coming back to the seven-day forecast, upper 90s could return. coming up in 12 minutes. >>> near lake tahoe, threat grows by the hour. firefighters working through the night. look at night drops there, trying to stop the caldor fire. destroyed 328 structures so far, bit of progress, 5% contained, up from 0% last night. with thick smoke and highway 50 closed, many in the bay area have canceled their trips. >> reporter: cruise working to protect the community which has been evacuated. crew hiking up steep hillside to try to gain the upper hand. flames h

let's check in with rob mayeda to see how it is and how it will be. rob? >> we are saying the worst of the moderate air quality in the east bay, and down into san jose, and the smoke more widespread today, kind of filtering in through the coast and the sea breeze starting to help us out, and that will be the trend. more smoke tonight but notice the 24-hour change how the smoke looks now, and towards tomorrow evening you see a big change there as the sea breeze is going to help us out for monday. it will clear out our skies and lead us to cooler temperatures, and our biggest concern is a change in the wind. we are looking at the potential for a north to offshore wind. that's bad news for fire danger. those are the dry winds we typically get into september and october. could see an early round of that head into the early part of next week and the other impacts we will see on our forecast moving forward. that's coming up. back to you. >> thanks. get up to the minute forecast with our nbc bay area app. >>> hundreds are injured and people still being pulled fro

we begin with meteorologist rob mayeda. another spare the air alert is in effect tomorrow. it is bad out there. you can smell it and feel it. >> on top of that we'll be adding 100 degrees temperatures, we are seeing healthy air in san jose, the tri-valley and in land east bay locations. north wind developed today. it will be that same wind pattern a lot that brings more unhealthy air our way, you can see the model behind me showing you that you got unhealthy smoke level around the bay area. we head towards the evening. this is an aqi index, these areas you are seeing in orange. watch those areas as we head towards the evening. they start to move off towards the east, the sign of a sea breeze picking up late tomorrow but not in time to clear the board in terms of spare the air day. valleys tomorrow, could see 100 degrees temperatures and san francisco could see numbers downtown in the mid-80s, when cooling arrives and better air quality showing up in the forecast coming up in ten minutes. >>> no friday night lights in some parts of the east bay. several games cancelled inclu

meteorologist rob mayeda will have the weather. >> i'm terry mcsweeney. >> i'm connie. we did see some improvement today. >> not in dublin though, as you can see. >> let's bring in meteorologist rob mayeda to see what's coming up next. >> right now the sea breeze making a difference on the inner bay. a cloudy coast on the north bay. you can see the air quality at this hour. instead of orange and red, in dublin, it's green and yellow. it's moderate. brought on by the sea breeze and a surge of low clouds. the good news for the weekend, we saw upper air smoke, but the surface smoke, the healthy air that we breathe, a lot of that has pushed off to the east. we might see a little smoke moving to the north bay, but not to healthy levels. meantime the wind increasing here, look at this. the radar shows the ash being tossed up by the vertical winds. you see the major wildfire along highway 50. that's a big concern as the fire moves off toward the east bringing hazardous and very unhealthy air quality. that's an air quality concern as we wrap up the weekend. closer to home, enjo

let's bring in our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri and our meteorologist rob mayeda. jeff, what's the biggest threat? we just heard the mayor talking about that. what's the biggest threat of where this fire is headed? >> it's really going to be the wind. as you mentioned, i'm glad people are listening to those evacuations, because we can't control mother nature. what we can do is take a look at what we have coming our way and make our best decisions. right now, evacuating, listening to those orders is going to be the best solution here. wind gust, 20-50 miles per hour. and then on this map, can you see all these fire icons. that's where the fire's been most active on that eastern flank of the fire, because the wind is coming out of the southwest. it's pushing these flames closer and closer. >> last night we were at 19% containment and today 14%. so it spread and grew. >> i am not surprised at all. it is dry out there. and you get a little wind kicking up and this is unfortunately the recipe for fires to spread. that's why i'm so glad people are listening to those orde

let's check with meteorologist rob mayeda. what can we expect as the weekend goes on? >> we've been watching the smoke dropping in from the north through the day. most of the bay area in the moderate range, one stage away from unhealthy for sensitive groups which would elevate things up to spare the air level. we're starting to see the numbers on the increase. but the unhealthy air has for the most part stayed to the north around ukiah. lake county, mendocino unhealthy. down right hazard close to the fires, including the dixie fire in northeastern california. you can see how the upper air smoke, the areas in red and purple, that's where the really nasty wildfire smoke has been bottled up. but at times, it moves to the south as the winds change direction overnight. notice the sea breeze helping us out this evening. as we head towards tomorrow morning, the sea breeze backs off. if you have outdoor plans, the worst of the smoke are be around sunrise to today. and the sea breeze picks back up. as we head towards monday, we should begin to see better air quality as cooler t

rob mayeda is here.ked what tokyo is looking like now, i just got back on tuesday, now it is cool? >> it is finally cool. it was like being in a hot studio for three weeks and now it is cool. >> i had 95, humidity like 90 and it was a feel-like 110. i got you a fan. >> thank you so much. >> a little olympics fan. >> and you needed it. >> i needed it in a big way. >> i think you brought the weather with you back to the bay area. we have 50s and 60s tomorrow morning and you may want a fan like raj handed me for the afternoon. low 90s inland. one thing to watch for the afternoon, we could see some scattered showers moving in through the morning hours. we will be watching it closely. moving into the weekend, warming trend saturday and sunday. raj. >> that will do it for us at 7:00. for everyone here at nbc bay area, thanks for joining us. good to be back home. enjoy your evening. we will see you again at 11:00. ♪ ♪ >> simon fights back tears. what got him so emotional? >> on a basketball mom. >> courtside re

meteorologist rob mayeda joins us. not only hot, rob, but we're going to see the effect of some of those fires, because we're going to see that smoke. >> even though conditions look pretty good in the green, they're going to be changing as you see the smoke pouring into the inland east bay valleys. the one-two punch of wildfire smoke and rising temperatures, the air quality advisory extended all the way to sunday for moderate levels of smoke. but temperatures in the valleys could be approaching 100 degrees. at the same time we could see a chance of showers. we'll have a first look at this and the heat on the way coming up. >> thank you, rob. >>> so was it a hate crime? a man verbally assaults an asian restaurant owner after a problem with his bill. hear more from the owner and others seeing an increase this violence. >>> and one of the world's best is hanging up the mic. the legend, tony bennett, calling it quits. and a look at the last time he was here in the bay area. it's a new day. and it's coming at you fast. it co

why the fires and others are taking off quickly, meteorologist rob mayeda continues the coverage. so much burning and everything try. >> drought setting the stage why the fires are taking off. caldor fire and dixie fire north, both originally started in highest severity of the current exceptional drought we're seeing on the west slopes of the sierra. all-time dry levels. west side of the sierra, next to the red line that indicates once a fire is started, going to take off quickly and burn intensely. seeing fire behavior of this caldor fire, any embers that fall in the high erc environment means fire will take off and spread rapidly with high heat. we've been seeing that throughout. and seeing more in california, in terms of the climate change angle, as weather turns warmer and drier through time, this type of fire behavior, long range spotting and massive wildfires generating their own weather becomes more common and also at night, drier in the mountains and winds going like caldor fire growing last night. seeing the cycles moving more at night than in the day. >> thanks rob. >> c

. >> rob mayeda's here tracking the forecast.it was a bit cooler, it was nice. >> we cooled down here raj is sweating right now. the hot weather continues outside. we take a look at how things are shaping up. daytime there looks a little bit like what we saw over the sierra here today close to 90 degrees. the humidity up to 65%. a sauna-like atmosphere. a little relief could come in scattered showers and temperatures ramp back up. 66 degrees in livermore. over in san jose, mostly clear, of 63. tomorrow's weather will involve some drizzle at times and then clouds clearing inland around 10:00 or 11:00 in the afternoon. temperature also start off in the mid to upper 50s, 65 tomorrow around san francisco. warmest places tomorrow out towards concord and livermore, upper 80s to near 90 degrees. as can you see around the bay area, smoke for the most part continues to stay in the northern part of the state. it should stay there as long as the sea breeze keeps temperatures mild. and daytime heating provided for thunderstorms across the sa

meteorologist rob mayeda is joining us now. the advisory extended through tomorrow. >> we are seeing specific areas where some of the wildfires smoke is at its thickest. you are seeing some of that. we are seeing higher concentration between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. the bay area, thanks to the sea breeze relatively clean air. we head toward north bay. seeing that red and out to san ramon for the morning hours. you may see moderate levels of smoke. as the sea breeze picks up, look how the number starts to come down. that's acting a bit like a fan. the air quality advisories talk about moderate levels of smoke. it will be an ongoing issue as we head into the weekend as well. more hazy skies and some heat on the way. we could see upper 90s in the forecast by the end of the weekend and perhaps another chance of monsoon moisture bringing more showers. a closer look at your friday's forecast coming up. >>> a contentious issue is taking center stage at a school board meeting from now. the school board is meeting for the first time in

. >>> rob mayeda joining us now. that fire is burning 50 miles northwest of reno, far, far away and yet we are getting some of the smoke. >> yeah, a change in the wind. when you get fires that large putting up that much smoke, a change in the wind brings it to the bay area. tomorrow why we are thinking we are going to get better air quality is a stronger sea breeze, a bit of a south wind pushing it out but a return to the north wind is getting our attention as we head to the middle part of the week. that's a view of the tri-valley, what you can see of it through the haze and smoke. making it worst, numbers in the mid-90s. temperatures are still in the 90s there, and we will see another day of low 90s tomorrow but we should see more blue skies inland as the winds pick up tomorrow. in san jose, west winds into san francisco and only 63 degrees. your display of the summer microclimates, and you have the 90s inland across the east bay valley, and 60s on the coast and 80s up through the north bay, and numbers in the upper

our meteorologist rob mayeda is here. >> we are talking about heat, obviously san francisco excluded from that. 67 degrees, you probably notice the warm up especially in land around walnut creek around 93 degrees. hazy skies. into the tri-valley, 93 in livermore. winds out of the west and 83 degrees. now on the topic of air quality, we have an air equal advisory due to increasing wildfires smoke, friday and saturday, valleys have a chance of some upper 90s the next couple afternoon, unfortunately that air quality and heat will be watching as we head into the weekend, the sources of that smoke including the caldor fire here and notice the way the smoke plumes are changing the direction. winds are shifting out of the northwest right now. out of the north later tonight and into tomorrow, unfortunately that's going to push more smoke down into the north bay and east bay. by the time you wake up tomorrow morning, 8:00 a.m. look at that on the near service smoke and that trend unfortunately continues. this time tomorrow evening, more smoke dropping into the bay area. the wind aloft will co

our meteorologist rob mayeda reminds us of the radar loop from a year ago which shows the hundreds of lightning strikes throughout the bay area that started 900 fires in our region. this is between august 16th and 18th. the lightning complex fire is still the fourth largest wildfire in the modern history of this state. reporting live here in dublin, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> thanks, bob. >>> all right. so we know that we could lose power in some areas and this is going to be hot. >> it's going to be hot and we also think about the classrooms that are now getting back in session they have to run the air purifiers for class and all of those issues that come along with this and once again, highlighting those counties that will be in that potential pfps as we go into tuesday into wednesday that includes solano, napa, sonoma, lake, mendocino counties. this also coming as we still already have a lot of fires burning to our north and we're seeings the hazy conditions and the unhealthy air quality that will clear out later today. then may return tomorrow. as we see a shift in the win

things are pre rob mayeda is continuing to keep a close eye on the air quality. how long will the smoke stick around, rob? >> it looks like through the weekend. as of this hour we're starting to see the push of fog around san francisco, notice the icons in green for the central bay, that is good air quality. as you get into san jose, tri valley, inland east bay, and north bay, we're at yellow or moderate. that's why the bay area air quality district has added monday. mendocino and lake counties tomorrow will at time see the unhealthy air. the worst of it continues to be to the far north and east. overnight the smoke drifts from the north, we see it settle into the bay area. the late day sea breeze picks things up which will help cool things off for the evening. a few areas could get to the upper 90s tomorrow. just around the corner, cooling changes. that's good news for air quality and those hot temperatures inland. a closer look at the timing at that in your seven-day forecast coming up in ten minutes. >> rob, sounds good. >>> rob was just talking about it, the h

rob mayeda has been covering this fire activity. and you've been taking a look at the air quality and visibility and something we talked about before the show, it could get dangerous for folks who don't evacuate. once it gets dark it's going to get even worse, right? >> excellent point, we've talked about visibility. we've had hazardous air quality. you can see the smoke output on the increase. so, as we head into tonight, look at the air quality index, how it's going to change rapidly over south lake tahoe. these areas in red and purple indicating unhealthy to almost hazardous air quality. when you're given these evacuation orders or evacuation warnings, it could be a totally different situation as the smoke thickens up all across lake tahoe, and as the fire continues to advance off to the north and east at times. visibility will be greatly reduced. so it's a public health situation that we're watching there in terms of the unhealthy air, but it really limits visibility as folks try to get out of the fire basin as the activity star

walnut creek, you are seeing it hazy, and you said it would start that way, and you were right, rob mayeda. >> yes, these two same locations were starting in the orange and red, and the same sensitive groups, and still in the green, and good air quality and except up in the solano county except in the smoke, and the seakrees into the ground level and inland to the east tomorrow morning and waking up to the hazy skies and into the sea breeze tomorrow afternoon to clear the skies once again, and the ocean air conditioning is helping us out with the air quality, and as we are moving forward, the temperatures ahead to dixie fire, and talking about the temperatures in 100 degrees, and the valleys for another concern for fire danger could be thunderstorms moving back to sierra, and the closer changes to the forecast coming up in 10 minutes. and coming up, rob, and monitor up to the minute conditions of the air quality on the bay area app free to download. >>> the dixie fire is the second largest in history, and the fire grew to 463,000 acres in all burning more than 700 square miles in several c

meteorologist rob mayeda joins me next. >>> creating another day of dangerous air in one of california'st visited places, you know it, lake tahoe. it is blanketed in wildfire smoke, and that's turned the hot spot tourist vacation spot into a virtual ghost toll. cal fire sid it is fairly confident they will manage to keep fire from reaching the tahoe basin but said everyone needs to be ready to leave in a moment's notice. we will be back in a moment. kids love visiting kidifornia. but parents like it to, like a lot. they go bonkers. (wuaahh) totally boom it's an adventure. (sound of playing) you know ,you have to keep an eye on them. you got to let them explore and figure things out for themselves. so hurry up (screams) they're not gonna stay this way forever. kick off your kidifornia vacation at visitcalifornia.com >>> and a couple of stories to be watching weather wise. heading into tomorrow will be one. the heat across the inland valleys, and as you see clearly behind me here more of the wildfire smoke pouring into the north bay. let's first look at the smoke as we head towards tomorro

. >> let's get to meteorologist rob mayeda for what firefighters are up against, and a smoke forecast for the bay area. >> it's been good news in terms of our air quality, we're back to good to moderate for most of the bay area right now. the sierras are providing wind for the fires to take off. sea breeze, 24 miles per hour in fairfield. notice what it's doing to the near surface smoke, it's clearing it out. during the day tomorrow we may begin to see smoke come down the coast but not to the unhealthy spare the air levels we saw in the last two or three days. very different story for the caldor fire, a fire burning so intensely, the wash being wafted into the air. we'll continue to see that as we head into sunday. for now, temperatures mild. in the seven-day forecast, 90s and 100-degree temperatures just around the corner. we'll take a look at that in the forecast coming up in ten minutes. >>> 13 major wildfires are burning across the state. you see them here on this map. these fires alone have burned a total of 1.5 million acres, nearly 13,000 firefighters are out on the lines here.

our meteorologist rob mayeda reminded us of this radar loop he posted at that time. and it shows the hundreds of lightning strikes throughout the bay area that started roughly 900 fires in our region between august 16th and august 18th of last year. the scu lightning complex fire, by the way, to date, the fourth largest wildfire in our state's modern history. reporting live here in dublin, bob redell, nbc bay area news. >> thank you, bob. >>> let's take a look outside in san jose. you can see some of that haze that we've kind of gotten used to over the last couple of days. that smoke is northeast of us. and that smoke could cause problems for some people. >> meteorologist kari hall of course always keeping track of all of this. kari, how is it looking for us? i know the surface smoke is something to be concerned about. >> we saw that over the weekend. it looks so hazy. and even this morning as the sun was coming up you could see that eerie orange sky that we are definitely not hoping to see anymore. as we take a look at our es show some improvement as we go into this

let's check in with meteorologist rob mayeda with a look at the microclimate weather alert. >> the combinationrently in san jose, you see some of that wildfire smoke around the santa clara valley also towards walnut creek where it's in the 60s this among and san francisco, the fog moving in. 58. and for san francisco and the coast a little bit cooler today, not like it was yesterday. we got up to 84 in downtown san francisco. today looks like 70s in san francisco and 80s in oakl jose. upper 90s to near 100 degrees again around the tri-valley. so a look at the smoke pollution hour by hour shows you improvement around the peninsula, coast and inner bay towards the evening and more of the sea breeze picking up leading to cooling changes too in the seven-day forecast. here's the outlook for monday see how the temperatures start to cool down, numbers dropping into the 80s. as we head into tuesday and wednesday as the winds pick up, our skies should clear and temperatures start to cool as we head towards the middle part of the week. kira? >> skies should clear. sounds good. thanks, rob. 6:28. coming

i saw meteorologist rob mayeda tweeted out a photo of what looked like an eclipse, but really it was just the orange haze over the sun that was making it appear red. wind speed and direction, right now, it says calm. we're pretty calm overall. as we head in towards the afternoon, i am pushing this timeline forward, around 3:00 p.m., the winds increase in san francisco oakland 66, concord, this is going to help move out some of the smoke we've been seeing. the hour-by-hour outlook, the coastline keeping the cloudy conditions for the first half. low clouds and a look at how the air quality is doing. right now the bay area air quality management district has not issued spare the air alerts and we're dealing with moderate air quality based on the index scale. if you live in the inland north bay hills and in the east bay, you want to monitor because as the winds shift so do the conditions of the smoke. the time stamp around 6:00 p.m. when we see the winds pick up, look what happens to some of that smoke. it goes from we had oranges and reds, clear out and push out, pushing some of this th

rob mayeda reminded us of a radar loop which showed hundreds of lightning strikes throughout the bay area that started 900 fires in our region between august 16th and 18th of last year. the lightning complex fire, fourth largest wildfire in modern history of our state. reporting live here now where there are still concerns about the haze already in our bay area skies. meteorologist kari hall is tracking those conditions. i feel like yesterday was the first day that i really got a big whiff of it in the south bay. >> yeah. just looks so hazy all weekend and so we're still dealing with that. it's not going anywhere until this afternoon. it does look like we'll get a little bit of a break. let's talk about those wind speeds that bob redell was mentioning there. still breezy out there and the winds will pick up even more as we head toward tomorrow night into early wednesday morning. not only that, but it's going to be extremely dry, very low humidity, and those winds picking up at about 35 to 40 miles per hour. some of the those hills as well as parts of the east bay. the rest of the bay