let's get right to our meteorologist, rob mayeda. rob, the wind has really pushed this fire in directions where firefighters were hoping it wouldn't go. and it shows you just how dangerous conditions can be when the wind changes direction. we're not seeing those strong, damaging offshore santa ana winds, but wind out of the west for a time tonight. push that fire that palisades. fire off to the north and to the east. the new evacuation order zones south of encino. you see here. these are the hotspots where the area where the fire was the most active over the last few hours here on the north side. and another evacuation order. if you orient yourself here, here's 405 freeway. you've got westwood, ucla on the east side of the freeway and on the west side you have brentwood. the expectation is the fire may move into mandeville canyon. and if it drops down into this area ahead of the next wind shift, this could lead to a big problem, as we'reexpecting the return of these gusty offshore winds. so you can see here wind speeds starting to acc

rob mayeda is here. how's the wind today? because it had been whipping for days and days. well, this is the good news for air crews especially. and crews on the ground. we had these wind speeds when the fire started was about 40, 50, 60mph. but today, mostly wind gusts below 20mph. so they've been able to make up some ground there in terms of getting some back fire set and containment lines, trying to get some containment on the palisades fire. but it is still a very active fire. the satellite detected heat mostly on the north side here. so that's actually better news for places like brentwood and santa monica. have. the more active part of the fire has been in less populated areas. as we take you into the eaton fire as well, here's another location that has benefited from less wind over the last 24 hours. but here's the problem with the eaton fire. more of the activy is down around the altadena area and east of la canada flintridge, so with less wind, fire crews are able to make some ground up. but you saw the view from the mount wilson cam. all the unhealthy air across s

our rob mayeda joins us now with an explanation. rob, first i have to say, you weather people you love coming up with these names. a few years i'd never heard of the atmospheric river, the polar vortex, or the bomb cyclone. and now we have hydro climate whiplash. tell me about it. let's break down the term hydro water or climate. so short term or long range forecasts that involve changes, both involving more rain than you'd expect to see in a given time. or it's the all or nothing winter precipitation forecast. so when we take a closer look in a warmer climate, storms such as atmospheric rivers have the capacity to carry more moisture, so you can have wetter storms. and at the same time, in a warming climate, you can see more resilient ridges of high pressure which enhance drying. now, the whiplash part of the hydroclimate whiplash is within the same season. you can see both of these patterns setting up, and we've seen a prime example of that this year. when you think of santa rosa, you mentioned it, garvin. in november, in three day

let's get right to our meteorologist, rob mayeda. rob, the wind has really pushed this fire in directions where firefighters were hoping it wouldn't go. and it shows you just how dangerous conditions can be when the wind changes direction. we're not seeing those strong, damaging offshore santa ana winds, but wind out of the west for a time tonight. push that fire that palisades. fire off to the north and to the east. the new evacuation order zones south of encino. you see here. these are the hotspots where the area where the fire was the most active over the last few hours here on the north side. and another evacuation order. if you orient yourself here, here's 405 freeway. you've got westwood, ucla on the east side of the freeway and on the west side you have brentwood. the expectation is the fire may move into mandeville canyon. and if it drops down into this area ahead of the next wind shift, this could lead to a big problem, as we're expecting the return of these gusty offshore winds. so you can see here wind speeds starting to ac

and rob mayeda is here. ow, rob, let's talk about these fires in socal, because i think last week we looked at a drought map and up in northern california, we were doing way better than southern california. yeah, in both areas, seeing offshore wind obviously stronger in southern california, but really a tale of very two different areas when it comes to the rainfall we've seen to start this year, benefiting from the very active november and december in the bay area. look at this map. and it's just two sides of the same coin for zenni. you've got one area well above average. as you go north of san francisco, you've got 100 to 140% of average. but as you move down the central coast into los angeles, almost no rainfall. so the calendar essentially becomes irrelevant. it doesn't matter that it's january. you just haven't had any rain pretty much since october. in fact, for parts of southern california, that goes back to late spring. so the calendar says it's january. but in terms of fire danger for areas south of

let's go to our meteorologist, rob mayeda now. rob, the red flag warning, i think is set to expire there soon, but it could be dicey again this weekend. yeah, the overall offshore wind pattern continues right now. a bit of a lull in the action you saw from gina kim's live shot there. not a lot of wind. and this is the best news we've seen so far this week. those wind speeds have come down quite a bit, especially in the altadena area out to the east near sierra madre, and the most active parts of this fire, the last 24 hours. a lot more of it up in the mountains, a little less of it down towards the more densely populated areas around altadena and north pasadena. similar conditions actually out towards the palisades fire. wind speeds, which were about 40 to 60mph, generally below 20 to 30mph around the mountain areas. most of the activity with this palisades fire has been away from santa monica and brentwood. up in the mountains between topanga beach and woodland hills. this is an area, too that has benefited from less wind, but wat

rob mayeda is back with us. we're talking about a potential more evacuations in this area right now. just issued on the east side of that fire. to the north, you have encino in the san fernando valley, and you have 4 or 5 freeway. the other side is brentwood and beverly glen. so it's those areas between the freeway and the palisades fire which have new evacuation orders. of course, we'll keep you updated on our website throughout the night. our own weather concern is the gusty wind around the bay area. watch these do start to pick up across the mountains there, and the north bay and the east bay hills, you see those wind speeds increasing. a mostlyy saturday wind event there. sunday should see less wind and ongoing dry conditions. so here's a look at your forecast for tomorrow. saturday's highs climbing into the 60s saturday, the windier of the two days, and your weekend forecast as we head into sunday and monday, the next thing we're watching will be some chilly nights ahead. we're looking at likely frost advis

organizers say they plan on leaving tomorrow and rob mayeda is here now. and rob, i know a lot of people are wondering, well, what's the weather going to be lik the next couple of days for these firefighters and for the folks who live down there? yeah, we had an improvement in conditions today which allowed some progress on those fires. unfortunately, strong, gusty offshore winds are going to be returning there. the time frame to watch will be like right around this time tomorrow night, probably through about wednesday morning. and we have our own dose of offshore winds. we're watching in the bay area tonight across some of the north bay hills. as you're about to see, gusts tonight could be above 50mph. we're seeing that right now close to mount saint helena, 49 degrees in san jose. not much wind. eventually, we'll see lows dropping closer to 40 around san jose. and it's already 40 degrees in dublin. this is one of the locations over the next few nights and mornings, could be waking up to some patchy frost and temperatures in the 30s. 48 degrees in san rafa

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meteorologist rob mayeda is here. rob, how is the rest of our weekend looking like in terms of rain? it's out of the picture for now. the one weather advisory we have is still the high surf advisory on the coast. wave heights off shore, still in the 10 to 13 foot range. but over the last few hours these wave heights continue to come down. so expect more tame conditions returning to the coast as we head into the new week. and then we're watching out for some patchy fog, hazy sunshine, no rain in the forecast, but the bigger story moving forward could be the wind, gusty offshore winds, which may result in wind advisories as we head into the new week. we'll have a closer look at that timeline, and when we do see any rain chances ahead in that 7 to 10 day forecast coming up in a few minutes. sounds good. rob, thank you very much. ahead of his inauguration, san francisco's mayor elect is taking part in a weekend of service. the events brought daniel lowry out to several neighborhood cleanups today, including this one at oce

meteorologist rob mayeda joins us. rob, sometimes you hate to be right. and you were right yesterday. we stood right here and you told me about those santa ana winds and how dry it's been and the risk for fire danger and the red flag warnings. and we're seeing that play out right now. unfortunately, all the conditions were there. we talked about an area that hasn't really seen any rain since october. then on top of it, one of the strongest santa ana wind patterns in many years. and you get what happens here around the palisades fire. this is around the time the fire started. you see the mountain wave action with the winds moving down towards the ocean. that allows the embers, once they get airborne, to move rather rapidly away from the fire, which leads to a rapid sprd. and when fire crews watch fires like this, the ones where the column plume is right on the ground like that, heading out over the ocean lets you know how strong and gusty those winds are at the same time, look at the chinooks there from cal fire still accessing those water drums at the top

let's get right over to meteorologist rob mayeda for a look at those conditions. rob. yeah, gia. we've been watching these winds shift on schedule, as we expected today, the return of the gusty offshore wind. you can see how it's impacting the upper air. smoke moving away from the palisades. fire and wind speeds in the santa cruz mountains. santa monica mountains. excuse me. up to about 45 mile per hour gusts there. notice the wind direction out of the north. so that is making the fire the most active part of the fire here on the north and east side start to march southward to areas north of brentwood that is mandeville canyon, right there on the north side of brentwood. the hot spots today, really on the eastern flank of that palisades fire. now, unfortunately, this whole zone is under that red flag warning to the east. the eaton fire under a high wind warning as those wind speeds accelerate heading into tonight, you can see the fire weather outlook for the region remains critical through tonight and on into sunday, as we're expecting currently, the speed of those offshore winds

rob mayeda san francisco. chili, i'm going to say a little bit cold. not too bad though. we're looking at 40s and near 50 around san francisco, and we've got a dry start to the weekend. pretty dry for now and a pretty evening as well, thanks to some high clouds. this was the view a little bit earlier around san francisco. perhaps you notice this if you're traveling across the bay. gorgeous view. one thing that high clouds are good for pretty sunrises. pretty sunsets. we'll have another round of it as we head into your sunday forecast. and right now, speaking of 50 degrees, that's where we are in san francisco. no issues of fog around the bay, but by tomorrow morning we might see a little bit of patchy fog. right now, 48 degrees in san rafael over towards walnut creek, 46 visibility still looking pretty good across contra costa county and into san jose. 49 degrees. now we still have some high surf on the coast. the advisory should drop later on sunday morning, but exercise caution there along the beaches as you head out to wrap up the weekend. hazy skies, mix of high cloud

let's bring in meteorologist rob mayeda, who's keeping an eye on that. high surf warning. yet? high enough that we're still seeing some wave heights off shore. about 12 to 14ft at times. but this is less than half the heights we saw just two weeks ago. and we had the coastal flood warnings and the high surf warnings. so from here, this current high surf advisory will end at 3 a.m. tomorrow morning. you can see how the wave heights drop down. calmer conditions headed to our shoreline. in fact, not much in the way of any storms ahead in the 7-day forecast. areas of fog. hazy sunshine like you're seeing right now in san jose. but ahead, we could be dealing with some dry, gusty offshore wind. how strong those winds will be and how long the rain stays out of the forecast. coming up in a few minutes. rob thank you. the countdown to inauguration day in san francisco next week. it is on and mayor elect daniel lurie is getting a jump start on his new job. he was out taking part in neighborhood cleanups today. nbc bay area's christie smith caught up w with the incoming mayor jut days bef

rob mayeda is with us now to talk about what we're seeing across the u.s. here. and of course, down in southern california. it's a mess, really, east of the rockies, a lot of deicing airports impacted. and that's going to continue as we go through the weekend. the national weather forecast will show you that here we've got it pretty good of temperatures in the 60s in the sunshine. but look at the big travel hubs to the east. we're talking chicago, atlanta, the northeast. snow at times temperatures below freezing. and that's going to slow things down on those airports. denver to dealing with the snow down towards texas. we're seeing some clearing after we did have some active weather there. but again, if your travel plans include the northeast, the great lakes or the rockies this weekend, plan on seeing some delays now closer to home. no active weather at all. we've got mostly clear skies. still 63 degrees in san jose, 61 in dublin. not much wind for the moment, but that will be changing by tomorrow morning. 55 in san rafael and patchy low clouds moving across san

let's bring in our meteorologist, rob mayeda. you've been tracking those conditions. that red flag warning that's been in effect all week just expired. but they say the winds could pick back up this weekend. yeah. next 36 hours will be critical for that region. we did make the gains on those fires burning around the los angeles area. here is the key reason why calm light winds across the fire lines. there you can see the fire footprint. how far down into altadena this eaton fire did get. but there is the big change. wind speeds right now. relatively quiet there. similar conditions to the west out around the palisades fire up around the santa monica mountains. still some wind speeds up to 20mph, but that's a lot different than the 50 to 60 mile per hour sustained winds we had just a couple of days ago. so conditions have settled down and we'll start the weekend with similar conditions. but watch what happens here as we head into sunday night. you saw the area there around the palisades fire just to the north, which is thousand oaks, ventura county. wind gusts getting b

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