{"id":442179,"date":"2026-08-24T18:22:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/442179\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T18:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:22:29","slug":"california-may-see-highest-sea-levels-ever-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/442179\/","title":{"rendered":"California May See Highest Sea Levels Ever This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        California&#8217;s shoreline is heading into a winter that coastal experts say could be unlike any other. A strong El Nino, unusually intense king tides, and longer-term sea level rise are lining up to push water levels to what scientists warn could be the highest ever recorded along the state&#8217;s coast, reports the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-08-24\/californias-coast-under-siege-flooding-big-waves-erosion-forecast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>. Tides are already running several inches above forecasts from San Diego to Humboldt County, eroding beaches and exposing old infrastructure before El Nino even peaks.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Folks who really think about coastal risks are very concerned that the single-highest sea levels on record are quite possible this winter in California,&#8221; says University of California climate scientist Daniel Swain. &#8220;And that is going to be a problem.&#8221; By late fall, raised seas are expected to collide with some of the decade&#8217;s most extreme king tides, with peak days around Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and Jan. 22. If big winter storms arrive at the same time, low-lying communities such as Mission Beach, Newport Beach, and parts of Long Beach could see significant flooding, erosion, and wave damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; California&#8217;s shoreline is heading into a winter that coastal experts say could be unlike any other. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,443,9648,3162],"class_list":["post-442179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-climate-change","tag-sea-level-rise","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442179","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=442179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}