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Morro Rock is a 581-foot volcanic plug located just offshore from Morro Bay, at the entrance to Morro Bay Harbor. The Morro Bay SMRMA includes the area below mean high tide within Morro Bay east of the Morro Bay entrance breakwater and west of longitude 120° 50.34′ W. [2]
A rare vagrant Ivory Gull on a Central Coast beach. The Central Coast is an area of California, roughly spanning the coastal region between Point Mugu and Monterey Bay.It lies northwest of Los Angeles and south of the San Francisco Bay Area, and includes the rugged, rural, and sparsely populated stretch of coastline known as Big Sur.
Morro Bay (Morro, Spanish for "Hill") [9] [10] [11] is a seaside city in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States. Located on the Central Coast of California , the city population was 10,757 as of the 2020 census , up from 10,234 at the 2010 census .
Coastal California is heavily influenced by east–west distances to the dominant cold California Current as well as microclimates.Due to hills and coast ranges having strong meteorological effects, summer and winter temperatures (other than occasional heat waves) are heavily moderated by ocean currents and fog with strong seasonal lags compared to interior valleys as little as 10 mi (16 km) away.
The National Weather Service reported “significant wave heights” off the coast of San Luis Obispo on Thursday morning, with a buoy outside of Morro Bay recording wave heights of 23 feet at 17 ...
Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary is a marine sanctuary located off the coast of California. It protects an area of 1,286 sq mi (3,331 km 2) of marine wildlife. The administrative center of the sanctuary is on an offshore granite outcrop 4.5 sq mi (12 km 2) by 9.5 sq mi (25 km 2), located on the continental shelf off of California. The ...
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 ...
The typical tidal range in the open ocean is about 1 metre (3 feet) – mapped in blue and green at right. Mean ranges near coasts vary from near zero to 11.7 metres (38.4 feet), [ 4 ] with the range depending on the volume of water adjacent to the coast, and the geography of the basin the water sits in. Larger bodies of water have higher ...