{"id":401186,"date":"2026-07-16T20:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/401186\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T20:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:12:12","slug":"tropical-storm-elida-might-send-big-surf-to-san-diego-county-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/401186\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Elida might send big surf to San Diego County \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Weather Service says it\u2019s monitoring whether Tropical Storm Elida, which is expected to become a hurricane on Friday off the southern tip of Baja California, will turn northwest and send huge surf to San Diego County beaches.<\/p>\n<p>Elida officially became a tropical storm on Wednesday, producing sustained winds up to 50 mph. Such a system becomes a Category 1 hurricane when it produces sustained winds between 74 and 95 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Experienced surfers love storm surf. But it poses danger to inexperienced swimmers and surfers who venture into the ocean when waves crack ashore, especially at south-facing beaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Weather Service says it\u2019s monitoring whether Tropical Storm Elida, which is expected to become a hurricane&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,3053,181,23,100,3054,74,84,76,75,3055,1696,19],"class_list":["post-401186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-east-county","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-north-county","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-south-county","tag-top-stories-sdut","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}