Red Flag Warning: Planned, unplanned outages happening across NorCal due to heavy wind, fire risk

Added: 2026-05-24

[00:00:00]OPHELIA.

[00:00:01]THE WINDS HAVE REALLY DIED DOWN TONIGHT, BUT MORE IS ON THE WAY, RIGHT?

[00:00:05]YES.

[00:00:05]SO WE’RE NOT OUT OF THE WOODS YET.

[00:00:09]SO THE WINDS RELAXED NOW?

[00:00:10]REALLY JUST A LULL AS WE SIT IN BETWEEN ENERGY THAT IS COMING IN THROUGH WAVES.

[00:00:16]BECAUSE OF THIS SYSTEM.

[00:00:17]CURRENTLY THE WINDS STILL PRETTY STRONG THOUGH IN FAIRFIELD AND STOCKTON SUSTAINED INTO THE 20S.

[00:00:23]IN STOCKTON.

[00:00:25]GUSTS ARE UPWARDS OF 43MPH.

[00:00:27]THESE ARE DOWN FROM EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON WHEN WIND GUSTS WERE IN THE UPPER 40S IN VACAVILLE AND YUBA CITY.

[00:00:34]SOME OF THE STRONGER WIND GUSTS WERE CLOCKED IN MAXWELL AND LOGANDALE, BUT THOSE WIND GUSTS IN THE LOW 50S AT THE SACRAMENTO EXECUTIVE AIRPORT, THE WEATHER STATION MEASURED A WIND GUST OF 51MPH.

[00:00:46]THAT WAS AROUND 2:00 THIS AFTERNOON.

[00:00:49]AS YOU NOTICE, MOST OF THOSE LOCATIONS WERE ALONG I-5 IN THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY, WHERE THE RISK WAS AND STILL IS, THE HIGHEST AND WILL BE TOMORROW, AS WELL AS A RED FLAG WARNING CONTINUES TO BE IN PLACE FOR THOSE NORTH WINDS.

[00:01:04]GUSTS STRONGEST IN THE MORNING, GRADUALLY TAPERING OFF BY AFTERNOON.

[00:01:07]THE PROBLEM WITH YOUR MONDAY IS THAT EVEN THOUGH THE WINDS WILL BE LIGHTER, THE HUMIDITY IS GOING TO BE LOWER AND THOSE GRASSES ARE GOING TO BE DRIER.

[00:01:15]SO THE WINDS WILL BE ON AND OFF TONIGHT.

[00:01:18]TOMORROW MORNING THEY’RE GOING TO PICK BACK UP AS ANOTHER WAVE OF ENERGY MOVES THROUGH.

[00:01:23]IT WILL FINALLY CALM DOWN IN THE AFTERNOON.

[00:01:25]AND BY EVENING, MOST SPOTS WILL BE A LITTLE MORE LIKE NORMAL.

[00:01:28]SO WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW WALKING OUT TOMORROW, IT’S GOING TO BE WINDY.

[00:01:32]TEMPERATURES, HOWEVER, SHOULDN’T BE AN ISSUE RUNNING IN THE MID 60S.

[00:01:36]AS YOU WALK OUT THE DOOR IN THE AFTERNOON.

[00:01:39]HOWEVER, THOSE WIND GUSTS WILL CALM DOWN, BUT THAT TEMPERATURE IS GOING TO GO UP.

[00:01:43]WE ARE NEARING 90 DEGREES IN THE AFTERNOON ONCE AGAIN, ONCE THE WINDS ARE O