. >> sandhya patel has when the warm-up will begin. >> i would call it a heat up. today is warmer. towards thursday, temperatures soaring. excessive heat watch in effect for the entire bay area beginning saturday morning got extended today until 8:00 p.m. tuesday. highs upper 90's to up to 110 degrees possible. lows in the 60's to 80's. risk of heat illnesses will be going up considerably. taking a look at the sampling of temperatures. saturday into the triple digits. sunday. 105 in antioch. monday, possibly exceeding the 110 degree mark in fairfield. high risk of heat illnesses. limit outdoor plans in the heat. keep cool and check on the elderly and pets. i will let you know when you get a break and a full look at the holiday weekend forecast. >> still ahead. could one school districts unusual request to families be a sign of the housing challenges in the bay area? we tell you about the message sent to try and ease the housing crisis for teachers in the south bay. abc7 announcer: type 2 diabetes? discover the power of 3 in the ozempic® tri-zone. in my ozempic® tri-zone, i lowered

it's to abc7news meteorologist sandhya patel. sandhya: the most intense heat will hit this weekend when we are expected to hit records. we have a heat watches from 11:00 a.m. on saturday until 3:00 p.m. on tuesday. hot enough to make you sick, especially when overnight temperatures are not going to drop much. as you take a look at what is going to happen, it will heat up this week. you will notice the inland heat will start to shift westward. look at the temperature trend for concord, triple digits on saturday through monday. dangerous heat up and down the west coast, excessive heat watches, warnings, and advisories in effect. i will be back with a full look at the holiday weekend forecast coming up. ama: thank you. with the intense heat wave looming, californians are being warned to cut back on electricity use. monday the fifth is expected to strain the state's power grid the most. people are asked to reduce their energy use between 4:00 and 9:00 p.m. there is a potential for rolling blackouts. you can keep and i the weather anyt

it's to abc7news meteorologist sandhya patel. sandhya: the most intense heat will hit this weekend when we are expected to hit records. we have a heat watches from 11:00 a.m. on saturday until 3:00 p.m. on tuesday. hot enough to make you sick, especially when overnight temperatures are not going to drop much. as you take a look at what is going to happen, it will heat up this week. you will notice the inland heat will start to shift westward. look at the temperature trend for concord, triple digits on saturday through monday. dangerous heat up and down the west coast, excessive heat watches, warnings, and advisories in effect. i will be back with a full look at the holiday weekend forecast coming up. ama: thank you. with the intense heat wave looming, californians are being warned to cut back on electricity use. monday the fifth is expected to strain the state's power grid the most. people are asked to reduce their energy use between 4:00 and 9:00 p.m. there is a potential for rolling blackouts. you can keep and i the weather anyt

. >> and here with more on the latest drought data, is sandhya patel. sandhya: let's take a look at last week vs. this week. i want to really turn your attention to the central valley. you will notice this area here. that's extension until drought. watch watch what happens as was bring you to this time. extreme drought in southern california. and parts of the sierra nevada actually shrink. here in the bay area no change whatsoever. we're in a severe drought. as you take a look t our rainfall averages it's one of our driest months we get 500 to 900th. not enough to put a department on our deficit. if you look at la nina which is cooler than average ocean temperature that is will continue through winter there. 's an over70% chance that it continues through winter if it happens this is the third winter in a row. and this is tonight third time this has ever happened that we've had a la nina three years in a row in the 73-year record. now, if it follows, what we have seen the last two years, it would be wetter than average in the pacific northwest. dryer in t

sandhya patel is here with the weekend forecast. ndhya: it would not just be the garlic cooking, we have heat coming our way. let me show you alive picture, you may want to go to the coast to escape the hot weather coming up. this is alive due from santa cruz. it is all quiet. hottest day so far was 52 days ago, triple digits in santa rosa, san jose. livermore hit 102 on june 21. even places like oakland and san francisco in the 90's. we have been spoiled with nice weather. as we look at the beach forecast, 70 degrees. writ 67, ocean beach. high uv index. 85, santa cruz. it has been mild lately. i want to show you the forecast for the san jose jazz this weekend, mid-80's, sunny and warmer on sunday. high pressure building back. this low pressure has been hanging back and keeping us from getting too hot but it is shifting northward allowing the ridge to move west, and temperatures will rise. it will pull in monsoon moisture. tuesday and wednesday the sierra starts to see showers and thunderstorms. in the bay area more made in level hi

let's get to sandhya patel. sandhya: you know it is summer, so you know we will have to deal with the heat. we will see those temperatures rise inland the next two days. try 96 degrees in livermore, fairfield. 33 degrees cooler in half moon bay, where there was some fog. 74, oakland. hottest spots will get even hotter, so there is a heat advisory until 7:00 p.m. saturday. there is a moderate to high heat risk. tomorrow morning, your coolest point, 50's and 60's. heading into noon time, already in the 80's. by the afternoon, heading into the mid-90's. i will be back to let you know where the temperatures will end up for your friday and how much hotter for saturday coming up. ama: thank you. governor newsom criticized a judge's decision to extend an order that blocks caltrans from clearing a homeless encampment in oakland. about 200 people live at the encampment located under 880. the site had seen 195 fires in the past two years. the judge wants oakland and caltrans to have a plan in place to house the people who

let's get to sandhya patel. sandhya: you know it is summer, so you know we will have to deal with the heat. we will see those temperatures rise inland the next two days. try 96 degrees in livermore, fairfield. 33 degrees cooler in half moon bay, where there was some fog. 74, oakland. hottest spots will get even hotter, so there is a heat advisory until 7:00 p.m. saturday. there is a moderate to high heat risk. tomorrow morning, your coolest point, 50's and 60's. heading into noon time, already in the 80's. by the afternoon, heading into the mid-90's. i will be back to let you know where the temperatures will end up for your friday and how much hotter for saturday coming up. ama: thank you. governor newsom criticized a judge's decision to extend an order that blocks caltrans from clearing a homeless encampment in oakland. about 200 people live at the encampment located under 880. the site had seen 195 fires in the past two years. the judge wants oakland and caltrans to have a plan in place to house the people who

dan: sandhya patel is here with the forecast. sandhya: change is fine too. let me show you right now of you from prospect peak in the mountains where it is a gorgeous view. it doesn't look like that everywhere. i want to show you live doppler 7, very active weather across the sierra, parts of northern california. you can see numerous lightning strikes, as thunderstorms have a repton. hundreds of lightning strikes, 133 to be precise. there is an emergency that has been declared for the markley bill area, flash until 7:30 tonight. to an half inches of rain has fallen causing severe flooding. as you take a look, they have seen debris flows in the area. they need the rain but it is too much rain all at once. when it falls on the burn scars areas, it is causing excessive runoff. we take a look. it is up and down from the sierra toward southern california that we have flood watches, not just through tonight but down south through tomorrow night -- friday night. as you take a look at what is happening, it is left over moisture from a former tropical storm and the m

. >> and here with more on the latest drought data, is sandhya patel. sandhya: let's take a look at last week vs. this week. i want to really turn your attention to the central valley. you will notice this area here. that's extension until drought. watch watch what happens as was bring you to this time. extreme drought in southern california. and parts of the sierra nevada actually shrink. here in the bay area no change whatsoever. we're in a severe drought. as you take a look t our rainfall averages it's one of our driest months we get 500 to 900th. not enough to put a department on our deficit. if you look at la nina which is cooler than average ocean temperature that is will continue through winter there. 's an over70% chance that it continues through winter if it happens this is the third winter in a row. and this is tonight third time this has ever happened that we've had a la nina three years in a row in the 73-year record. now, if it follows, what we have seen the last two years, it would be wetter than average in the pacific northwest. dryer in t

dan: meteorologist sandhya patel is here. sandhya: in august, we get 61 hundredths of an inch. we been seeing the monsoonal moisture moving in. tracking showers and to dangle at 5:12, and walnut creek, 5:14 this evening. one thing we are keeping an eye on is this. we see lightning strikes about 59 miles away, so thunderstorms not out of the question. this area of low pressure has been drawing up the monsoonal moisture, which is giving us the humid air. also the thunderstorms we are seeing not just in the sierra but off the coast line. liz: you can keep track real-time on the weather conditions where you live, including the latest forecast and live doppler 7. just head to our website abc7news.com. dan: san jose police are investigating a shooting that left one man dead and another hospitalized. it happened sunday just before 4:00 a.m. police responded to reports of gunfire off of grandstand way. officers found one man dead at the scene. >> he is believed to have been at the location. he is believed to have been shot at the location. dan:dan: that victim has non-life-threatening

ama: let's get to abc7 meteorologist sandhya patel. andhya: enjoy this comfort zone while we have it because next week hot weather is going to return to the bay area. let me show you live pictures from our san jose roof camera. those should be flip-flopped. sorry, just made a last-minute change. golden gate bridge showing you the fog. zephyr cove, lots of sunshine. 50's from the coast. 80's inland. today's warmest spots barely making it to the low 90's. a strong marine influence overnight. morning drizzle. as you can see, the breeze gusting to 33 at sfo. that is really helping out in terms of keeping the heat away. along the embarcadero we have a nice breeze. you can see those flags blowing. good air quality the next three days thanks to the refreshing ocean breeze. as we take a look at life top 7, still lingering low clouds on the coastline. i want to give you an update on the drought, no change statewide from last week. central valley is faring the worst, extreme to exceptional drought. parts of southern california in extreme drought.

dan:dan: meteorologist sandhya patel is tracking that for us. sandhya: the weather looks fantastic as we inched toward the weekend. let me show you a labview form are exploratorium camera. part of the city skyline secured the fog. things are starting to stabilize a bit. earlier today we did have a few showers. this afternoon some of ground was wet in san francisco. drove through light showers today. as you check out what was happening, an area of low pressure off the coast. high pressure over the desert southwest. both responsible for pulling up some of this moisture. not only left over moisture from a former tropical storm, but monsoon moisture. fortunately, this did not start a new fires. here's a look at the left over moisture from that tropical storm. it is post-tropical frank, expected to continue to move in our direction. a little of that humidity will linger as we look going to tomorrow. that low pressure starts to go away, taking the humidity with it as we head toward the weekend. dew points are in the 50's for most of you. 47 in livermor

dan:dan: meteorologist sandhya patel is tracking that for us. tastic as we inched toward the weekend. let me show you a labview form are exploratorium camera. part of the city skyline secured the fog. things are starting to stabilize a bit. earlier today we did have a few showers. this afternoon some of ground was wet in san francisco. drove through light showers today. as you check out what was happening, an area of low pressure off the coast. high pressure over the desert southwest. both responsible for pulling up some of this moisture. not only left over moisture from a former tropical storm, but monsoon moisture. fortunately, this did not start a new fires. here's a look at the left over moisture from that tropical storm. it is post-tropical frank, expected to continue to move in our direction. a little of that humidity will linger as we look going to tomorrow. that low pressure starts to go away, taking the humidity with it as we head toward the weekend. dew points are in the 50's for most of you. 47 in livermore, 50's is in the muggy range.

dan: sandhya patel is here. we are hoping for more of this great weather. sandhya: i would not have it any other way. a live picture from the exploratorium camera. if you like cooler weather, you will be happy with the weekend weather. area of low pressure is moving down toward vancouver and parts of canada, portland, seattle. we will be under the influence of this trough, and as we are under that influence, we will notice the winds picking up and temperatures coming down. live doppler 7, we have a marine push and the marine layer has deepened to 1500 feet. half moon bay, visibility is down to one mile. be careful because it becomes dense. mostly 50's and 60's unless you are out towards brentwood. as you look at the forecast for the festival in chinatown, it will be nice but grab a sweater or a jacket. a cool morning, make some sunshine and clouds on sunday, breezy. palo alto, festival of the arts will be bright and mild, 50's to mid 60's. festa italiana, upper 50's to mid 60's. silicon valley pride festival, you can expect mild, sunny conditions. at night i

dan: let's go to abc7news meteorologist sandhya patel up with a look at the forecast for outside lands. sandhya: if you are going to be there and moving and grooving, this is going to be music to your ears, the weather is going to be perfect. live doppler 7 we have the fog around, typical for this time of year. the marine layer is about 1800 feet deep. we have onshore winds, higher clouds above. here is a look at the forecast. you're going to see some fog from time to time, a little breezy, some high clouds around. as you check out the three day outside lands music festival forecast, dusty with sunshine tomorrow, 64°. saturday, fog to sun and breezy, typical weather for sunday, upper 50's, getting into the low 60's. i will be back with a complete look at the weekend forecast coming up. ama: now to the latest on the monkeypox operate. today the white house declared a public health emergency as cases rise across the country. as reena roy explains, the declaration frees up money to shore up testing and the vaccine supply. reporter: the biden administration declaring the virus public healt

sandhya patel is here with the weekend forecast. t would not just be the garlic cooking, we have heat coming our way. let me show you alive picture, you may want to go to the coast to escape the hot weather coming up. this is alive due from santa cruz. it is all quiet. hottest day so far was 52 days ago, triple digits in santa rosa, san jose. livermore hit 102 on june 21. even places like oakland and san francisco in the 90's. we have been spoiled with nice weather. as we look at the beach forecast, 70 degrees. writ 67, ocean beach. high uv index. 85, santa cruz. it has been mild lately. i want to show you the forecast for the san jose jazz this weekend, mid-80's, sunny and warmer on sunday. high pressure building back. this low pressure has been hanging back and keeping us from getting too hot but it is shifting northward allowing the ridge to move west, and temperatures will rise. it will pull in monsoon moisture. tuesday and wednesday the sierra starts to see showers and thunderstorms. in the bay area more made in level high cloud

dan: meteorologist sandhya patel is tracking all of it. hya: outside lands is going to be the best time ever, as long as you just plan accordingly, bring a jacket or a hoodie because there will be fog and clouds around. we will keep it in the low to mid 60's range to be typical, fog to sunshine in the next three days. active weather in the sierras. monsoon moisture bringing thundershowers, producing some heavy rain. we do have flash flood watches and warnings in effect down towards southern california. there is an evacuation warning where the happy camp area fire is burning. red flag warning due to lightning for parts of northern and northeastern california. i want to show you what is drawing the moisture. high-pressure over the desert so left -- southwest there's an area by the coastline with a south wind. dew points right now, some areas still muggy to human. 58 in oakland. dryer air around concord. san jose cameras showing higher clouds as we look at the temperatures. 69 in oakland. 82 degrees in palo alto. 64 in half moon bay. this is o

for more of the damp weather let's get to sandhya patel.te a treat to get those showers. we had a few lightening strikes. but fortunately, those lightening strikes did not result in any new fires. all is quiet right now as we head into tomorrow, especially early on in the morning and then later in the afternoon could still see, hit or miss showers. the focus of the thunderstorms will be over northern california and the sierra nevada as you take a look at live picture from our south beach camera. last 24 hours pick up trace amounts. kent field. 400's in half moon bay. august we don't see rain too often. but for the entire month of august, our average is 600th in san francisco. i'll be back to let you know if there's any more humidity or showers in the forecast. dan: thank you we'll see you shortly. one of the most wanted terrorists in the world killed by the united states. ayman al-zawahiri was killed. norman norwood explains that he was strumal in some of the deadliest attacks against united states. prior to the blue room ball con inn presi

i'm sandhya patel. i'll have the forecast coming up. dan: all that and more coming up but here's what's ahead on jimmy kimmel. here at city of refuge, we house up to 26 families. we reduce homelessness, address mental health, provide spaces for addiction to be broken, create spaces of healing and restoration. for the first time ever, prop 27 will provide permanent funding for organizations like ours. saying yes to prop 27 means more people get the assistance that they nee they get someone to partner in such a way to see transformation come to them. yes on prop 27, because there's no place like home. dan: a controversial billboard has popped up in san francisco and los angeles discouraging people from moving to texas. abc7 news reporter leian melendez has a look at how people are reacting. >> the message is intended to be dark. the texas miracle die in uvalde. the billboard showing a man in a hoodie says don't move to texas. >> i don't think it's a particularly good taste. >> billboard is meant to highlight the lax gun laws in texas foll

for more of the damp weather let's get to sandhya patel. rory it was quite a treat to get those showers. we had a few lightening strikes. but fortunately, those lightening strikes did not result in any new fires. all is quiet right now as we head into tomorrow, especially early on in the morning and then later in the afternoon could still see, hit or miss showers. the focus of the thunderstorms will be over northern california and the sierra nevada as you take a look at live picture from our south beach camera. last 24 hours pick up trace amounts. kent field. 400's in half moon bay. august we don't see rain too often. but for the entire month of august, our average is 600th in san francisco. i'll be back to let you know if there's any more humidity or showers in the forecast. dan: thank you we'll see you shortly. one of the most wanted terrorists in the world killed by the united states. ayman al-zawahiri was killed. norman norwood explains that he was strumal in some of the deadliest attacks against united states. prior to the blue room ba

dan: let's go to abc7news meteorologist sandhya patel up with a look at the forecast for outside landssandhya: if you are going to be there and moving and grooving, this is going to be music to your ears, the weather is going to be perfect. live doppler 7 we have the fog around, typical for this time of year. the marine layer is about 1800 feet deep. we have onshore winds, higher clouds above. here is a look at the forecast. you're going to see some fog from time to time, a little breezy, some high clouds around. as you check out the three day outside lands music festival forecast, dusty with sunshine tomorrow, 64°. saturday, fog to sun and breezy, typical weather for sunday, upper 50's, getting into the low 60's. i will be back with a complete look at the weekend forecast coming up. ama: now to the latest on the monkeypox operate. today the white house declared a public health emergency as cases rise across the country. as reena roy explains, the declaration frees up money to shore up testing and the vaccine supply. reporter: the biden administration declaring the virus public health

. >> that's get to meteorologist sandhya patel. >> this is one of our driest times a year.e had a marine layer in the past where there's a little bit of moisture in the fuels, we are still dealing with very severe droughts. that's a good live doppler 7, fire danger will remain elevated. high pressure to the east that has been building westward. high pressure over the pacific. this is what's bringing us the heat. it's only going to increase in terms of our temperatures the next day. tomorrow, expect hotter weather for some of our inland valleys. what saving the coast is the marine layer and the sea breeze. we do have a very shallow marine layer, but just about everyone noticing a warm up right now. seven degrees warmer in san francisco, six degrees in san jose. a live look from our exploratorium camera. nothing but blue skies and temperatures in the low to mid 70's from san francisco to oakland. 81 in palo alto. 89 in san jose and 50 and half moon bay. you could see a haze in the atmosphere, the air quality is beginning to decline as the heat is building mid-90's, santa rosa

sandhya patel is here to tell us what the rest of the week looks like. >> it was absolutely beautiful. we will turn up the heat. inland areas will get hotter. be prepared. i want to show you live doppler 7. we are seeing thunderstorms flaring up to the north. the same low-pressure system that brought us the showers and thunderstorms yesterday pushing through south of susanville and around the reno area. south of alturas. they have seen rain with the thunderstorms, just the way we want to keep it. you can see the fog is pretty much broken up along the coast. we still have it across some parts of the bay area. big divide between the coast and inland areas. highs in the mid and upper 90's. 93 in brentwood. only 61 in half moon bay. you can pick and choose with the summer microclimate. because it is still hot, heat advisory for lake county until 8:00 p.m. illnesses are possible. hottest spots up to 102. 110 over the next couple of days for solano county. heat advisory extended until 7:00 p.m.. saturday, moderate to high heat risk. keep in mind, stay hydrated winds gusting now. sfo, 39. 40

dan: sandhya patel is here. we are hoping for more of this great weather. would not have it any other way. a live picture from the exploratorium camera. if you like cooler weather, you will be happy with the weekend weather. area of low pressure is moving down toward vancouver and parts of canada, portland, seattle. we will be under the influence of this trough, and as we are under that influence, we will notice the winds picking up and temperatures coming down. live doppler 7, we have a marine push and the marine layer has deepened to 1500 feet. half moon bay, visibility is down to one mile. be careful because it becomes dense. mostly 50's and 60's unless you are out towards brentwood. as you look at the forecast for the festival in chinatown, it will be nice but grab a sweater or a jacket. a cool morning, make some sunshine and clouds on sunday, breezy. palo alto, festival of the arts will be bright and mild, 50's to mid 60's. festa italiana, upper 50's to mid 60's. silicon valley pride festival, you can expect mild, sunny conditions. at night it will be

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. >> sandhya patel is here with the forecast as we hit the weekend. >> the week and will feature somehot summer weather. i want to show you our drought monitor. our dry conditions not helping situation around the state for everyone. last week, you take a look at the drought. i want to point you to this area. the central valley. exceptional drought expanded. extreme drought shrink. the exceptional is over the central valley. it has gotten worse. in southern california and the sierra, the extreme drought shrink as they are getting monsoon moisture. no change in our drought monitor. still in the severe category. but a slight uptick in the severe category around the state. i want to point your attention to la nina. it continues. cooler than average water temperatures near the equatorial pacific. noaa came out with their update. 70% chance it continues through the winter. if it happens, it would be the third time with three la nina winters in the 73 year record. it would favor weather conditions, dryer across the southern california area. we can go both ways. we have seen the last two wint

here to talk about that is abc7 meteorologist sandhya patel. sandhya: the reason we're not seeing the bad air quality because air is coming from the south pushing the smoke forward. it is picking up the monsoon moisture driving it into our state. so far, we have seen rain with those thunderstorms, which is exactly what we want to see. some lightning showing off of our coastline in the last few hours. those lightning strikes are now gone, which is good. we want to see the rain. we don't want to see dry lightning starting new fires. we get you to the east bay, pa pacheko, around buchanan road, it is going to be in f fairfield tonight. we're going to widen out the picture here. hour by hour we go, next few hours, still the possibility of a few showers or isolated thunderstorm here in the bay area and certainly up to our north and in sierra nevada. i wouldn't hang up the umbrellas just yet. i will let you know how long the showers will remain in the forecast. dan a.: only on abc7 tonight, the truly brutal attack of a 70-year-old woman. let me warn y

. >> i'm meteorologist sandhya patel. i'll have the latest from the firelines. intense heat ahead coming up. >> the highest king tides you've ever seen and then add a foot or two on top of that. >> it's notou the gest cle threaa in th near future. >> now from abc7, live, breaking news. >> and we're following breaking news. a brushfire that is threatening homes in dublin. officers are evacuating homes off schaffer ranch road, shannon community center is now open as an evacuation and reunification center for people get separated. sky 7 has an overview of the fire. it started just before 5:00 when an suv caught on fire and flames quickly spread to the brush nearby, which was so dry. we just learned that crews say they stopped forward progress of the flames. >> the so-called eden fire is now at 10 acres. smoke is blowing to the west. the city of dublin is advising people sensitive to smoke to remain indoors. now the fire started not far from 580 westbound by eden canyon. for a time, it blocked the two right lanes of the freeway. >> let's get a live look at the fight

sandhya: i'm meteorologist sandhya patel.ty lingers. >> governor newsom declared a state of emergency over the monkeypox outbreak. abc7news at 6:00 starts right now. >> building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions. this is abc7news. liz: there is only one place in the country where you can get a real bat mobile built. san mateo investigators traveled there on a taxpayer trip. dan a.: thanks for joining us. the board of supervisors is taking action. the chief sent four investigators to raid the only garage that makes bat mobile replicas licensed by d.c. comics. ddan noyes is back with his exclusive investigation. dan n.: i have obtained some of the receipts for that trip funded by your public money. last week, i introduced you to realtor sam who ordered a $10,000 bat mobile from this indiana builder. he missed a payment and he couldn't reach him for more than eight months and moved the realtor from first position to the

. >> so, let's bring in meteorologist sandhya patel. dan a.: sandhya has more about the fire zone. sandhya: let's take a look at some of the warnings over the fire zone. they have a severe thunderstorm warning for central siskiyou county and that is in effect until 6:15. it is right there. the storm prompted the watching expected to weaken below limits. this is coming out of the flash flood watch, as they are seeing excessive rain and a red flag warning until 11:00 p.m. then reason for the red flag, there is dry fuel out there and dry lightning could cause fires and gusty winds could cause them to spread. we're watching this moisture about 90 miles away. it is a combination of remnant of what was once tropical storm frank and monsoon moisture. a few showers here, spotty showers. we're going to continue to see the potential for that as you will notice. those two flows, monsoon flow and remnant once a tropical storm will continue. how long it will continue with the mugginess? i will be back with the answers. dan a.: demanding a resignation. our abc7 senior education reporter explains

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but conditions in southern california are improving slightly, which takes us to meteorologist sandhya patel. any rain anywhere in the forecast coming? sandhya: yes, but not for the bay area. it looks like the sierra southern california will have the best shot at seeing any rain. as you just mentioned, this is the area you want to keep an eye on, all right? this is last week for the central valley. take a look at the drought monitor. as of today, you can see that the central valley, that exceptional drought has expanded. fortunately, the monsoon moisture actually brought about some improvement in southern california and the sierra nevada. this area is actually looking at a decrease in the extreme drought category, so we have seen an improvement here in the bay area. no change. this is one of our driest months and we do not expect any rain locally. high-pressure funneling some of that monsoon moisture into the southeast portion of the state. as we go into next week, we will see an increase in that monsoon flow, which means more showers are expected in the sierra and southern california, which

. >> sandhya patel is back with a forecast. >> enjoy it while it lasts.e middle of summer. it has been porting with significant and extreme rain across parts of mississippi. flood watches and warnings are still up for louisiana, mississippi. numerous reports of heavy rain, flash flooding. this is going to continue for that area. through friday night, they are at rainfall totals of three to six inches. the waterlogged area will likely see more problems. locally, it is just the fog and drizzle tomorrow morning. tomorrow afternoon you will notice temperatures are not going to warm up as much. her forecast going in to tonight. some of our warmest inland areas by 2:00 in the 80's. they topped out in the upper 80's to low 90's as you check out the view from our san rafael camera. accuweather seven-day forecast after a slight bump up friday, we are going to cool it off for you. >> we can talk baseball. >> let's get a chris alvarez -- let's get the chris alvarez. >> bonus baseball at the coliseum. how avoid the sweep. how avoid the sweep. a i'm bringing back my s

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sandhya patel is keeping track of all of that for us. sandhya?sandhya: unfortunately, those temperatures are driving, dan and ama, and the air quality is beginning to decline. i didn't want to show you our high temperatures for today and we'll talk about what's ahead for tomorrow. got up to one with hundred six in fairfield, 100 in concord, 101 in livermore. 90's in santa rosa, right near the coast, half moon bay, comforted by a little bit ofs fog, 65 degrees, low to upper 70's from san francisco to oakland. tomorrow, that heat intensifies. we have a heat advisory from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. covers solano county, those areas under the advisory the longest so until 8:00 p.m. wednesday, solano until 8:00 p.m. friday. for the bay area, we're talking the north bay hills and also the east bay and eastern santa clara hills are under that advisory from 11:00 to 8:00 tomorrow. this is where the greatest risk of heat illnesses will occur. temperatures in the triple digits, hottest locations here locally, 106 degrees. take it easy out there, drink plenty

meteorologist sandy patel is here with the forecast. sandhyae heat back in the bay but it will take a lot of time. let me show you our picture right now from her and read -- from our emeryville town camera. our back-to-school forecast is going to be in the upper 50's to low 60's at 8:00, so a comfy start tomorrow morning if your kids are off to school. mid-60's to the low 90's, so it is going to be a mild to warm day. dress your kids in layers because when they get out, they will need the short sleeves. an area of low pressure has been spinning off our coast line for the better part of the last several days. that has kept our temperatures in check. that low pressure system is going to move northward out of the picture, and high pressure will start to build westward. warmer weather is expected on saturday as we head into sunday. thunderstorms begin to move into the sierra and southern california, so if you have traveled ends to the mountains, -- travel plans to the mountains, keep that in mind. here is a look at your climate prediction center. t

meteorologist sandy patel is here with the forecast. sandhyathe heat back in the bay but it will take a lot of time. let me show you our picture right now from her and read -- from our emeryville town camera. our back-to-school forecast is going to be in the upper 50's to low 60's at 8:00, so a comfy start tomorrow morning if your kids are off to school. mid-60's to the low 90's, so it is going to be a mild to warm day. dress your kids in layers because when they get out, they will need the short sleeves. an area of low pressure has been spinning off our coast line for the better part of the last several days. that has kept our temperatures in check. that low pressure system is going to move northward out of the picture, and high pressure will start to build westward. warmer weather is expected on saturday as we head into sunday. thunderstorms begin to move into the sierra and southern california, so if you have traveled ends to the mountains, -- travel plans to the mountains, keep that in mind. here is a look at your climate prediction center.