Residents from Los Angeles to San Diego counties were being advised Thursday to avoid entering the ocean due to abnormally high surf causing large waves and possible instances of coastal flooding.<\/p>\n
The National Weather Service issued a beach hazards statement that will be in effect through Saturday morning, warning of \u201ctidal overflow\u201d that could flood some beach areas. The statement covers all Los Angeles County beaches, including the Malibu coast and Catalina Island.<\/p>\n
Forecasters warned of high tides reaching 7.2 to 7.7 feet, primarily between 8 and 10 a.m. each morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cRemain out of the water due to hazardous swimming conditions, or stay near occupied lifeguard towers,\u201d the NWS warned. \u201cRock jetties can be deadly in such conditions, stay off the rocks.\u201d<\/p>\n
Forecasters also noted that \u201cpooling of sea water is possible around high tide at beach and harbor areas that is uncommon with normal tidal ranges.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the NWS, \u201cenhanced beach erosion\u201d is possible, but \u201cno significant damage is expected.\u201d<\/p>\n
Los Angeles County Lifeguards issued a warning on social media about \u201cabnormally large tidal fluctuations\u201d that could create flooding risks in low-lying areas.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re heading to the beach, exercise caution, stay aware of changing conditions and keep a safe distance from the waterline,\u201d lifeguards warned.<\/p>\n
A separate beach hazards statement was also issued for all Orange and San Diego county coastal areas, again warning of waves topping 7 feet and possible localized flooding. The hazard statement in those counties will be in effect through Friday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents from Los Angeles to San Diego counties were being advised Thursday to avoid entering the ocean due…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,10681,2881,1028,171,46679,46680,22559],"class_list":["post-81916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-counties","tag-forecaster","tag-high","tag-orange","tag-tides","tag-unusually","tag-warn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81916","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=81916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}