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The upwelling further cools the already cool California Current. This is the mechanism that produces California's characteristic coastal fog and cool ocean waters. As a result, ocean surf temperatures are much colder along the Pacific coast than the Atlantic coast.
Two people were rescued and a third swam to safety after a California pier under construction partially collapsed and fell into the ocean Monday as the state’s central coast was pounded by heavy ...
Those warm ocean currents have a tendency to kick up strong storms, giving California good chances of a rainy winter. High surf pushes up the beach at Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area ...
A portion of California's popular Santa Cruz Wharf collapsed into the ocean during a deadly pre-holiday storm that has claimed the life of at least one person. Crews responded to the Santa Cruz ...
California's coastal regions, the Sierra Nevada foothills, and much of the Central Valley have a Mediterranean climate, with warmer, drier weather in summer and cooler, wetter weather in winter. The influence of the ocean generally moderates temperature extremes, creating warmer winters and substantially cooler summers in coastal areas.
Sea of fog riding the coastal marine layer through the Golden Gate Bridge at San Francisco, California Afternoon smog within a coastal marine layer in West Los Angeles. A marine layer is an air mass that develops over the surface of a large body of water, such as an ocean or large lake, in the presence of a temperature inversion.
Satellite image shows smoke from fires in Los Angeles blowing out over the Pacific Ocean at 1 p.m. on Jan. 8, 2025 (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
It is responsible for California's typically dry summer and fall and typically wet winter and spring, as well as Hawaii's year-round trade winds. [1] [2] During the 2011–2017 California drought, the North Pacific High persisted longer than usual, due to a mass of warm water in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the Ridiculously Resilient Ridge.