Temperatures in the hottest places are not expected to exceed the mid-80s this week.
The slim chance that some regions of the Bay Area would see rain this week now has virtually no chance of happening, the National Weather Service said Tuesday.
That will hardly minimize the fire danger, officials said. Late Tuesday morning, the NWS upgraded a fire weather watch to a red flag warning for critical fire conditions. The warning covers the interior regions of the Bay Area and the central coast and also includes San Francisco, the Peninsula and the Bay Shoreline.
“It’s not the temperatures we’re worried about so much as it is the off-shore winds,” Clouser said. “That will dry out the grass fuels even more, and the humidity will be critically low. It’s going to be very windy and very dry.” The utility did open its emergency operations center in Vacaville on Tuesday, and Sarkissian said the conditions could create the need for a PSPS.
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