Hurricanes bring heavy surf to Southern California, rain to parts of the Southwest

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Set us as preferred Two hurricanes churning in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico are sending high surf toward Southern California that will overlap with unusually high tides, bringing hazards for beachgoers and possible coastal flooding.The hurricanes, Polo and Odalys, are not expected to make landfall in California, and only isolated showers are forecasted in parts of Southern California on Monday, but other areas of the Southwest are likely to get substantial rain.Polo, a Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 140 mph, is on track to make landfall in Baja California Sur on Monday, unleashing heavy rains and flooding there.Hurricane Odalys, with 90 mph winds, is nearly 900 miles west of the southern tip of Baja California and is forecasted to turn away from land and weaken.California Two hurricanes in the Pacific could combine with high tides to cause flooding and erosion at Southern California beaches early next week.Polo intensified quickly to become a major hurricane, fueled by warm ocean waters.“To have a storm of this intensity persist as a strong hurricane all the way into Baja is unusual,” said Marty Ralph, director of the Center for Western Weather & Water Extremes at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.“That is partly because the ocean temperatures are so warm off of Mexico,” he said, “that it’s helping the hurricane retain its structure and strength to a degree that wouldn’t normally be the case.”The hurricanes developed amid a marine heat wave and a strong El Niño, the pattern of ocean waters warming in the central and eastern Pacific.Hurricane Nolo is also bringing strong winds and heavy rains to Hawaii this weekend.In L.A.

and Ventura counties, four- to seven-foot surf is forecasted on Monday and Tuesday, along with strong rip currents and possible coastal flooding, said Lis...