HOWEVER, THAT'S JUST HOW THINGS GO SOMETIMES. >> SCARY IS RIGHT, PAUL. I MADE THE TREK FROM NORTHERN TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. YOU COULD SEE HOW BROWN THE HILLSIDES ARE. WHEN YOU HEAR ABOUT LIGHTNING, WHICH I KNOW WE'RE STILL MONITORING, IT'S SCARY. >> IT'S NORMAL FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR FOR THE GRASSES TO BE GETTING TINDER DRY BECAUSE THEY AREN'T SUBSTANTIAL ENOUGH TO HOLD ONTO MOISTURE VERY LONG. YOU ADD A LITTLE LIGHTNING TO THE MIX AND THAT'S A BAD COMBINATION. THE GOOD NEWS IS OUR LIGHTNING THREAT WILL DIMINISH ENTIRELY THE NEXT COUPLE HOURS. >>> LET'S LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE PERSPECTIVE. THE BAD NEWS IS OTHER PARTS OF THE STATE, WHILE THE LIGHTNING THREAT DIMINISHES THERE, IT'S STILL HOT. OUR TEMPERATURES WILL DROP TO NEAR NORMAL, SLIGHTLY BELOW AVERAGE, BUT OTHER PARTS OF CALIFORNIA WILL BE COOKING, 97 DEGREES IN REDDING, 100 DEGREES IN FRESNO TOMORROW, 110 DEGREES AROUND PALM SPRINGS. SO THE STATE-WIDE FIRE THREAT IS DEFINITELY WORTH MONITORING. LOOKING OUTSIDE FROM SUTRO TOWER AS THE FOG ROLLS IN, WE'LL SEE THE LAST OF THE POP-UP SHOWERS HAD IS, MOST OF WHICH HAVE EVAPORATED, FALLING APART THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO AT THE OUTSIDE. BACK TO NORMAL JUNE WEATHER PATTERN BEGINNING TOMORROW THROUGH THE WEEKEND, VERY FEW DAY-TO-DAY CHANGES THROUGH SUNDAY. RIGHT AS WE FLIP THE CALENDAR PAGE TO JULY, TEMPERATURES FLIP BACK INTO HOT MODE FOR INLAND PARTS OF THE BAY AREA BY MONDAY, TUESDAY, AND PROBABLY WEDNESDAY NEXT WEEK AS WE APPROACH THE FOURTH OF JULY HOLIDAY. FOR FIRST ALERT DOPPLER, THE LOOP OVER THE PAST COUPLE HOURS SHOWS THE FEW SHOWERS FOR THE NORTH BAY. ALMOST ALL OF IT EVAPORATED BEFORE REACHING GROUND LEVEL AND THEY'RE BECOMING FEWER AND FARTHER BETWEEN. ALL THIS IS GROUND CLUTTER OFFSHORE, NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT. WE WILL SEE THE FOG REDEVELOPING AND SPREADING BACK IN THROUGH TONIGHT. IT'S HANGING OUT ALONG THE COAST LOOKING WEST TOWARDS SUTRO TOWER, TEMPERATURES HOT INLAND, 90 DEGREES IN LIVERMORE, 91 DEGREES IN CONCORD, 83 IN SAN JOSE, 77 DEGREES NOW IN SANTA ROSA, 60s IN BOTH SAN FRANCISCO AND OAKLAND, 63 IN THE CITY, WON'T BE MUCH COOLER FOR FIRST PITCH OF THE GIANTS GAME, GAME TWO OF THEIR FOUR-GAME SERIES AGAINST THE CHICAGO CONDUCTION. TEMPERATURES WILL COOL OFF AS THE FOG SPREADS OUT AND A NOTICEABLE BREEZE BECAUSE IT'S JUNE IN SAN FRANCISCO. THAT'S HOW THINGS GO. WE'LL SEE THE FOG MAKING A GOOD PUSH INTO THE INLAND VALLEYS BY EARLY TOMORROW MORNING. IT WON'T LAST LONG THERE. WE WILL SEE THE FOG BACKING UP QUICKLY, SHOULD RETREAT TO THE COAST TOWARDS MIDDAY. ALONG THE COAST I THINK AN HOUR OR TWO OF THE SUNSHINE GLIMMERING THROUGH THE CLOUDS IS THE EXTENT OF WHAT YOU SEE OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. TEMPERATURES TONIGHT, MOST OF US DROPPING TO THE 50s, SOME OF THE WARMEST SPOTS AROUND 60 DEGREES IN SAN JOSE, MID-60s NEAR ANTIOCH AND BRENTWOOD. THEN WHILE WE WARM UP TOMORROW, WE WON'T WARM UP A LOT. WHOA, WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR MAP? OKAY. THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE OUR FORECAST HIGHS TOMORROW. YOU SEE REDWOOD CITY AT 75 DEGREES, 72 FREMONT. KIND OF LOST THE SCALE ON OUR FLOOR MAP. WE'LL MOVE PAST THIS FAIRLY QUICKLY. TEMPERATURES TOMORROW, EVERYBODY WITHIN A FEW DEGREES OF WHAT IS NORMAL FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR. LET'S GET RID OF THAT AND LOOK AT OUR HOUR-BY-HOUR WIND GUSTS TOMORROW WHICH THERE'S GOING TO BE AN ONSHORE BREEZE, A LITTLE STRONGER THAN TODAY, SOME 30-MILE-AN-HOUR GUSTS POSSIBLE FROM MIDAFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS AND THAT IS THE FREE AIR CONDITIONING WE RELY ON THIS TIME OF YEAR. IT WON'T LAST FOREVER. THE SIX TO TEN DAY OUTLOOK TAKES US THROUGH THE FIRST WEEK OF JULY AND SHOWS A STRONG SIGNAL TOWARDS ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES THROUGH THE FIRST HALF OF THE FOUR-DAY FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND AND EIGHT TO 14 DAY OUTLOOK SHOWING A DECENT CHANCE IT STICKS AROUND A LITTLE BIT LONGER. LET'S LOOK AT THE SEVEN-DAY FORECAST. ALL OF OUR LITTLE FORECAST TUBES ARE THE RIGHT SCALE. TEMPERATURES ARE 80s INLAND THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS, A LITTLE BABY WARM-UP FOR THE SECOND HALF OF THE WEEKEND. THE REAL HEART STARTS TO BUILD MONDAY AND TUESDAY AS TEMPERATURES RETURN TO THE 90s ON A WIDESPREAD BASIS. FOR BAY-SIDE TEMPERATURES RIGHT AROUND 70 DEGREES UNTIL MONDAY AND TUESDAY. EVEN THEN THE WARM-UP IS ONLY INTO THE UPPER 70s. WE DON'T LOSE THE ONSHORE INFLUENCE EVEN AS INLAND TEMPERATURES RETURN TO THE 90s WHICH MEANS ALONG THE COAST YOU'LL MAKE IT FARTHER INTO THE 60s THE FIRST COUPLE DAYS OF JULY IT. LOOKS LIKE FOURTH OF JULY THE REALLY LONG RANGE FORECAST IS HOT BUT
