{"id":41823,"date":"2018-12-20T07:07:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T12:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41823"},"modified":"2018-12-20T07:07:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T12:07:22","slug":"californias-next-calamity-storms-compounded-by-high-tides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41823","title":{"rendered":"California\u2019s Next Calamity: Storms Compounded By High Tides"},"content":{"rendered":"

California\u2019s Next Calamity: Storms Compounded By High Tides<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The wildfires that have taken their toll on California could be just the beginning of the state\u2019s calamities. Now, the high tides of winter are coming and if those tides are worsened by an incoming storm, they could devastate entire cities on the coasts.<\/p>\n

On December 10, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<\/a>\u00a0(NOAA)\u00a0released a report<\/a>\u00a0stating there is an 80 percent chance of an El Ni\u00f1o event this winter. Such events are associated with wetter and more intense winter storms. However, NOAA does caution that its data are from September through November and the intensity of the El Ni\u00f1o will not be known for quite some time still.<\/p>\n

Tides are determined by the sun and moon\u2019s gravitational pull on the oceans. This warning from NOAA comes as heavy storms bear down on California\u2019s Pacific\u00a0Northwest.\u00a0 \u00a0In central and northern California on Monday,\u00a0 waves were as high as 30 feet, with 40- to 50-foot breaks. Coastal flooding and erosion were reported. And sn even-more-powerful storm smacked the region yesterday, prompting flood watches, high-wind alerts, and winter storm warnings across nine states.<\/p>\n

According to ABC News<\/em>,<\/a> holiday travelers along I-5, which runs north to south through\u00a0Washington, Oregon, and California, can expect to be drenched with heavy rains. Although that storm has mostly passed and is headed to the Rocky Mountains, California is not out of the woods just yet.\u00a0High surf warnings were issued by the National Weather Service from Point Conception, California, north of the Los Angeles\u00a0 Basin, to the coast of southwestern Washington, highlighting an especially heightened threat to life and property within the surf zone, reported <\/a>Weather.com.\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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California\u2019s Next Calamity: Storms Compounded By High Tides The wildfires that have taken their toll on California could be just the beginning of the state\u2019s calamities. Now, the high tides of winter are coming and if those tides are worsened by an incoming storm, they could devastate entire cities on the coasts. On December 10, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[101,1001,23548,6489,8318,574,6490,9955,1219,23549,4849],"class_list":["post-41823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-california","tag-flooding","tag-high-tides","tag-mac-slavo","tag-national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration","tag-noaa","tag-shtfplan-com","tag-storms","tag-weather","tag-weather-com","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41824,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41823\/revisions\/41824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}