{"id":664045,"date":"2010-02-14T11:56:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T16:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0128779ef7cb970c"},"modified":"2010-02-14T11:56:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T16:56:35","slug":"high-surf-warning-issued-for-l-a-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/664045","title":{"rendered":"High surf warning issued for L.A. beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pop-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" id=\"pop-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/media\/ALeqM5i69xwZNyqo66veKqFbFdPTggXuJg?size=l\" style=\"width: 608px; height: 403px;\"><\/img><\/div>\n<p>The National Weather Service has issued a high surf alert for Los Angeles and Ventura county beaches for Sunday, but the conditions won&#8217;t be as bad as those that struck a Northern California surf event Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Surf is forecast to build to 7 to 9 feet, with some swells as high as 10 feet.<\/p>\n<p> Riptide conditions are also forecast, &quot;making swimming hazardous for even the most experienced swimmers,&quot; according to the Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p> The alert is scheduled to end at 9 p.m., with the height of the surf subsiding gradually through the day.<\/p>\n<p>The Southern California waves are significantly smaller than those that hit Northern California on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>At the Mavericks Surf tournament near Half Moon Bay, waves of up to 20 feet injured about a dozen spectators, some of whom were treated for broken bones. <\/p>\n<p>Waves knocked out barricades and a spectator platform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Shelby Grad<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Bystanders scramble as a wave washes over the beach during the<br \/>\nMavericks Surf Contest on Saturday in Pillar Point,<br \/>\nCalif. Credit: Chad Ziemendorf \/ Associated Press<br \/><\/br><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Weather Service has issued a high surf alert for Los Angeles and Ventura county beaches for Sunday, but the conditions won&#8217;t be as bad as those that struck a Northern California surf event Saturday. Surf is forecast to build to 7 to 9 feet, with some swells as high as 10 feet. Riptide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2MKp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}