Hurricane Marie tracking away from L.A., but beaches will still be hit hard
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Set us as preferred Hurricane Marie is expected to stay off the California coast, reducing the potential for significant flooding and strong winds, but the storm is poised to deliver dangerous surf conditions and some tropical rain over Labor Day weekend.All eyes have been on Marie’s trajectory since it formed in the eastern Pacific Ocean just offshore of Mexico early Tuesday.
Meteorologists ran models for the system showing the most likely path and nearly all of them indicated that it would head west, away from land.But there were a few outliers suggesting the hurricane could head north into Southern California, raising concerns for the holiday weekend.
“The odds of an actual hurricane landfall from this particular weather setup was, and remains, essentially zero,” UC climate scientist Daniel Swain wrote in a blog post.But even from hundreds of miles away, Marie is still likely to leave its mark with a 6- to 8-foot south swell bringing strong surf and rip currents to the beach and a chance of rain and a return to muggy weather as thousands of people flock to the coast to celebrate the long weekend.
California Marie could send showers and increased humidity to Southern California for the Labor Day weekend, as well as large waves, forecasters say.“Temperatures will not be overly warm, but it’s a holiday weekend and a warm time of year so we’re expecting a lot of people are planning beach trips and family events.We’d encourage people if you are planning a beach trip to swim where there’s a lifeguard and be aware of rip currents,” said Rose Schoenfeld, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard.
The storm is expected to bring back that muggy weather California experienced late last month with humidity levels ranging from 35% to 50% over the weekend and temperatures in the mid-80s along the c...