{"id":406911,"date":"2026-07-21T19:18:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T19:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/406911\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T19:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T19:18:26","slug":"post-tropical-elida-to-trigger-high-surf-this-week-off-the-coast-of-southern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/406911\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Tropical Elida to trigger high surf this week off the coast of Southern California"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elida won’t make landfall, but will bring an uptick in wave height and risk of rip currents for many California beaches.<\/p>\n

SAN DIEGO \u2014 A weak, slow moving Post-Tropical storm will bring high surf and an elevated risk of rip currents to San Diego and much of the Southern California coast to start the week.<\/p>\n

Despite the fact that Post-Tropical Elida will not make landfall, she will signal more intense waves and dangerous currents mainly for Monday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n


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To prepare the public, the National Weather Service issued a High Surf Advisory until 11:00 p.m. on Tuesday citing wave heights between 4 and 7 feet with sets up to 8 feet at south or southwest facing beaches.<\/p>\n

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Elida will remain hundreds of miles off the California coast and continue to deteriorate as it travels north. By Tuesday and Wednesday it is likely to weaken further to a post-tropical cyclone, meaning it will no longer have enough tropical qualities to be considered tropical.<\/p>\n

By the end of the week, what was once Elida will be a remnant low, likely to bring scattered showers to the Pacific Northwest. It’s standard for tropical storms to weaken as they move north from the equator, mainly due to encountering cooler air and water along the way.<\/p>\n

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Lifeguards and public officials alike are reminding residents and visitors to Southern California to heed warnings of dangerous breaking waves. Inexperienced swimmers should remain out of the water due to dangerous surf conditions.<\/p>\n

The National Weather Service adds, “High tides will generally be at or below 5.5 feet, but localized areas of beach erosion and minor tidal overflow may occur with the high surf during high tides. Swell and surf will decrease late Tuesday into Wednesday.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elida won’t make landfall, but will bring an uptick in wave height and risk of rip currents for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-406911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406911","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=406911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}