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Advisory · Coastal flooding · Catalina Island · Los Angeles County · San Luis Obispo · Santa Barbara · Ventura County

Minor coastal flooding along the California coast through Thursday

Published for Oct 26 · Until Oct 29, 1:00 PM

Coastal Flood Advisory from the National Weather Service, in effect for Catalina Island, Los Angeles County, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura County until Thursday 1:00 PM. Minor to moderate coastal flooding expected due to very high tides. Minor to moderate flooding of sea water is likely over vulnerable low-lying coastal areas, especially around the time of high tide,.

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From Nautical Nick dataSource: NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
Hazard: State of emergency: California is bracing for a record El Niño winter

Community posts · Catalina Island

2 posts in the last 60 days

Saturday, September 26th

CoreyMyDudeOcean Oracle ProTrusted Reporter
Catalina IslandWildlife sighting
Observed Sep 26 · Posted Sep 27 at 11:28 AM

At Lover’s Cove I saw a sea turtle, a couple of kelp fish, and a ton of lobsters. There are still plenty of fish in lovers Cove even though there aren’t too many at casino point due to the kelp being dead from the El Niño. There usually isn’t kelp at lovers cove, so the fish weren’t very affected.

Wednesday, September 16th

NauticalNickCaptainOcean Oracle ProTrusted Reporter
Casino Point Dive ParkSomething else
Observed Sep 16 · Posted Sep 18 at 1:12 PM

Kelp Forest Die Off: The sustained high ocean temperatures in august and september have been too high for kelp. A whole lot of the kelp on catalina island has died off.

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