{"id":471715,"date":"2026-09-22T07:46:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T07:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/471715\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T07:46:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T07:46:26","slug":"long-beach-declares-local-emergency-over-possibly-strong-el-nino-season-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/471715\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach declares local emergency over possibly strong El Ni\u00f1o season \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long Beach Mayor Tom Modica proclaimed a local emergency Monday ahead of what may be a strong El Ni\u00f1o season.<\/p>\n<p>The emergency proclamation gives Long Beach greater flexibility to prepare and respond if conditions worsen. It follows Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/el-nino-southern-california-risks\/3945283\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">state of emergency declaration<\/a> over the same matter.<\/p>\n<p>With it, state agencies are beginning to prepare for a possibly strong storm season.<\/p>\n<p>The weather pattern comes from a warming of ocean waters off the Pacific coast in South America. It tends to peak during the winter months, which is what concerns local and state leaders about the later half of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Meteorologists studying this year\u2019s El Ni\u00f1o pattern said it\u2019s shaping up to have the potential for a particularly strong storm season in Southern California this winter. Modica\u2019s proclamation allows the city to take steps ahead of the anticipated storm season to prepare for it.<\/p>\n<p>Although preparations are already underway, the remnants of Hurricane Marie and its recent impact on the coastal city heightened concerns about what could come next.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Long Beach\u2019s emergency proclamation, <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeach.primegov.com\/viewer\/preview?id=95776&amp;type=2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach Mayor Tom Modica proclaimed a local emergency Monday ahead of what may be a strong El&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-471715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471715","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=471715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}