Watch Out for High Seas and Gale Force Winds, Says US Coast Guard
Press release from the US Coast Guard:
22 ft swell crashes at the North Jetty in 2017. [Image by Laurie Jensen]
The Coast Guard encourages mariners to take precautions for high seas and gale force winds along Mendocino, Humboldt and Del Norte coastal areas beginning Wednesday.
The Coast Guard and National Weather Service (NWS) in Eureka are expecting powerful ocean swells as large as 19 feet to effect the northern California coast beginning Wednesday. These conditions have the potential to create large waves within entrance channels, especially during out-flowing ebb tides.
“We advise smaller vessels to remain in port or take shelter,” said Captain Gregory Fuller, Commander of Coast Guard Sector Humboldt Bay, “commercial vessels should prepare for rough seas and consider remaining in port until these hazardous conditions subside.”
The Coast Guard has established temporary safety zones to close entrance channels of Crescent City, Humboldt Bay and Fort Bragg during periods of hazardous surf. These safety zones will be activated by Coast Guard broadcast on VHF-FM channel 16 and will prohibit vessels from transiting harbor entrance channels during extreme environmental conditions.
“We are now at the start of the season with higher risk of large surf and sneaker waves,” cautioned Ryan Aylward, NWS Warning Meteorologist. “We recommend avoiding steep beaches, rocky outcroppings and jetties, and remaining well back from any wet rocks or sand.”
Mariners and beachgoers are encouraged to take the following precautions to protect themselves and their vessels:
• Monitor the weather and heed all marine warnings on VHF-FM channel 16.
• Recreational boaters, personal watercraft and paddle craft users are advised to stay off the water due to hazardous sea conditions.
• Beachgoers are urged to stay out of the water and off jetties during this period of heavy weather due to increased risk of rip currents and sneaker waves.For more information forecast conditions, visit the National Weather Service, Eureka Office www.weather.gov/eureka or facebook.com/NWSEureka.
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Should we be concerned about Alabama?
?!
Or you could be Jimmy Lee Swaggart who when he was caught hiring a prostitute went on TV and cried that he had sinned. There are and have been hundreds of evangelicals who have duped people out of their savings with the promise of the gold chariot ride to heaven if only they would send their saved retirement money to one of the sleazy professed religious carnival men working the cable TV. These con men and women prey on thousands of older Americans most with modest assets. They guarantee the unsuspected easy marks that they WILL go to heaven if they only send money. The Catholics are no better. Purgatory is where family members go and the survivors are encouraged to give money to the passed family members that will pay for their ticket to heaven. I like the picture!!
Only if you’re transporting weed with an Obama sticker on a Prius, then you better be concerned because you’ll get an extra five years for possession of a pony tail with a tofu enhancement charge.
Alert: Pence just ordered all sharpies to be removed from West Wing.
Lmao!!!!!
??Hey you need to ask for a favor first.
I’ll have my private lawyer contact your government, we will work something out on the down-low.
I guess Trump finally has convinced me that he is the sharpie-est tool in the shed.
Alabama does get high seas and waves I hope you know
On calm days, they just draw waves with sharpies.
And apparently..If you have a sharpie with graffiti weather modification capabilities, those high seas can turn into Hurricanes.. but.. you have to beilive in the power of the sharpie first..
“Graffiti ..modification”. That’s funny SF.
I wonder what the weather in Ukraine is…
I wonder where all the Patriots are. Maybe surfing the waves in Alabama?
It is amazing that months after the release of the Mueller report that did NOT exonerate Trump of obstruction, the idiot goes and asks Ukraine for dirt on a political rival for the upcoming election.
Ukrain’t make this stuff up, it’s too much!
More important, for the “Beach goers crowd”, is to, Stay Away from, the Jetties!!!! Don’t become the “Next One”, washed out to sea, not to be seen, for some time, if at all!!!
I’ll say!!!!!!!!!! yOU !! nailED It!!!!!
??Thank you Dan for that information. ??
Cue the person turning their back on the ocean or diving in to rescue their dog in
3…2…1
Good point Dan!
Maybe a reason HSU’s enrollment is so low. Too many students ending up in the morgue. My niece in Citrus Heights asked me if HSU was a safe school. I told her only if she didn’t go to the North Jetty, didn’t surf or go
to parties where other students had knives, or go to Sidelines or Toby and Jacks, or walked by herself any of the trails behind the campus or Arcata forests, accept rides or give rides to students she don’t know, smile at any of the creeps on the Plaza and the list goes on. She decided Sac State was a better, safer place for her. I agreed.
Good advice!
Bu, but , but arcata is a sanctuary city?!? A city of diversity, race , peace, ideology and freedom from government funding. Where baby’s are born without a gender because we don’t want to pressure them
Into being something they are not.
Stars award.
So r u saying it would not be a good idea for any of those dum asses that seem to always drive out on to the jetty’s rocks till waves take they’re vichels. Do not do it ,bad idea,no no.