High winds, high tides and unseasonably high temperatures dominated much of the Bay Area this week. On Tuesday evening the NWS issued an elevated fire weather threat alert — saying that afternoons will be the time frame of most concern when relative humidity is lowest and winds are strongest with gusts up to 30 mph across ridgelines and through gaps and passes in the Bay Area.
The blustery conditions Sunday – Monday did more than tousle hair, with downed trees and broken branches leading to power outages that, along with PG&E’s planned public safety outages, left more than 13,000 customers in the Bay Area in the dark Monday morning.
More seriously, a woman was hurt and a man died in separate Santa Rosa incidents on Sunday involving downed trees and branches.
Also, small vegetation fires and overturned vehicles kept first responders busy over the past 24 hours.
In Piedmont, a large tree fell across Moraga Avenue on Monday morning, closing the road for a short time. No one was hurt.
