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National Weather Service has Extreme Heat Warnings in Southern California through Oct. 8 and 9, after Downtown Los Angeles had four straight 100-degree days.
As of NHC Advisory 22 on Oct. 2, Hurricane Rachel is a Category 2 storm that peaked at 120 mph and is weakening, with no coastal watches or warnings; a Southern California swell is forecast next week.
A band of unusually warm ocean water is moving north along the Pacific coast, and it’s about to make California’s sea level noticeably higher for weeks
Marie, now a tropical storm, will not come ashore in California. But the storm, spinning in the Pacific hundreds of miles offshore, has already flooded Seal Beach’s 8th Street
Online searches about whether a hurricane could threaten California have spiked this week amid social-media posts and shared long-range weather-model maps