Traffic … one lane only westbound PCH at Bel Air Bay Club … near Sunset.
Emergency work on the side of the road.
Surf … Breaking waves of 6 to 9 feet are expected today … building to 10-14 feet tomorrow.Light rain … but heavy T-V hype … moves into Los Angeles.
But the T-V reporters are right … an epic rainstorm is arriving this afternoon.
5 inches of rain likely will fall in Malibu over the next 17 hours.
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This is Malibu’s only local daily news.
It’s the (((( 8:37 ))) edition of the ((( Friday ))) news … from Radio Malibu …. 97 point 5 K B U.
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Good morning Malibu!
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Light rain fell over Malibu overnight … just barely enough to wet the ground.
That does nor change the forecast for the rest of the day.
A major stream of moisture … an atmospheric river … is steaming across the Pacific from greater Hawaii.
It is on a collision course with a low pressure system and cold air moving down from the Gulf of Alaska.
Predicted impact … Malibu .… at midmorning.
Rainfall rates right now …. a quarter-inch per hour this morning at Point Conception.
Satellite passes offshore indicate a half inch per hour rainfall rates occurring offshore.
These rates should intensify by at least a factor of two … to one inch per hour or more.
Orographic lift will come into play … the clouds bump into the mountains … clouds go up …… rain comes down.
At least 5 inches of rain will fall in Malibu … the National Weather Srvice says.
The peak wind forecast has backed down …
The forecast remains … five to 10 inches of rain and 50 mile an hour winds in locations with mountains to the north.
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All Los Angeles County Fire Department stations in Malibu have sandbags available to residents at no charge.
Empty sandbags … up to 25 per person … are available at all fire stations.
And there are piles of sand to fill them up at all of the fire station s EXCEPT Fire Station 88 on Malibu Road … and Fire Station 72 on PCH at Decker Canyon Road.
Those stations have the bags but no sand.
The city has pre-filled sandbags available at the entrance to Zuma Beach.
Limit 10 per person.
All sand and sandbags are available while supplies last.
L A County and Ventura County firefighters also have their swiftwater rescue and special strike teams ready for the storm.
Caltrans and L-A County road crews have cancelled regular maintenance … and are pre-positioning extra road crews in the area.
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Southern California Edison has brought every available line crew in to work … and put extra workers in its customer service center … at its substations and on damage assessment teams.
Planned maintenance work has been put off.
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The National Park Service has roped off some of its parking lots in Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.
In Malibu …Solstice Canyon and the Zuma Canyon trailhead at the end of Bonsall Drive.
In the mountains …. Paramount Ranch, the overflow lot at Peter Strauss Ranch … and Rocky Oaks are closed.
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L-A-X has shifted its air traffic patterns to the opposite direction … and is using other procedures today.
Flights are running abut an hour late early in the morning … delays are expected to increase as conditions get worse.
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You are listening to the latest news from Radio Malibu … 97.5 K B U. ((( time ))))
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Swastikas and handwritten threats saying … quote … “you’re going to burn.”
Those notes were left at a jewish center 15 miles north of Malibu … on Kanan Raod norht of the 1-0-1 Freeway …
in the Oak Park neighborhood.
The Los Angeles Times reports that the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office has created a task force to investigate.
Several anti-Semitic notes were left on random homes and a Jewish Chabad center over the weekend.
Yesterday … President Donald Trump asserted in his news conference …. that many of the anti-semitic acts across the nation are the work of his political opponents … trying to make him look bad.
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Cases of Norovirus … or some other type of stomach bug … continue to pop up at public schools in Santa Monica.
The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District says it is using “an abundance of caution.”
The district has discontinued “optional group activities” at all schools …. to help prevent the spread of the stomach virus.
Optional activities include dances, field trips, camp trips and music rehearsals.
A letter sent to parents on Tuesday says this highly contagious illness does linger on a bit and the district is working hard at our school sites to minimize exposure on campus.
It’s unclear if the virus has spread to Malibu schools.
Cases of the illness have been detected during the field trip to Yosemite at John Adams Middle School.
Other cases have cropped up at two weeks at other campuses including Santa Monica High School, District officials have said.
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Here’s a fun weekend project.
The National Park Service wants to teach you how to take apart coyote poop.
Technically … it’s called dissecting coyote scat.
National Park Service researchers want to understand the diet of local coyotes.
A similar study a decade ago found that coyotes ate rabbits, pocket gophers, woodrats, and mice.
Native and fallen backyard fruit, too.
And in very rare cases, a pet cat.
But what are coyotes eating today?
That’s where you come in.
Wildlife ecologists hope to learn that with the help of the public and are looking for area residents to volunteer with the Coyote Scat Team at local monthly scat dissection events.
The first event for local area residents will be a dissection training, held on Saturday March 4 from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Thousand Oaks.
Subsequent dissection events will be held on the first Saturday of each month.
More information … at the National Park Service website.
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The Malibu Sharks boys soccer team lost Thursday’s home playoff game against Brentwood School by a score of 2-1.
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Traffic …
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Weather for the Malibu ….
Rain and possibly a thunderstorm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall.
5 inches of rain in this event.
It will be (((( 61 )))) degrees today on the beach … (((( )))) inland.
Winds will be fierce. Coming out of the south … of the ocean … with gusts to ((( 50 )))) miles per hour this afternoon on the beach .… in driving rain.
Sunset tonight is at (((( 5:36 )))).
After that … rain and possibly a thunderstorm before 4am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 4am.
Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall.
Low around 52 on the beach … down to (((( )))) in the canyons.
Tomorrow should be (((( showers and maybe a thunderstorm in the morning … cloudy and a chance of showers all day )))).
Right now … it’s (((( 57 )))) at Trancas.
(((( 49 )))) in upper Malibu Canyon.
And it’s (((( 58 ))) at Civic center Los Angeles.
In the ocean … it’s (((( 54 )))) degrees in the water at Zuma Beach.
BREAKING WAVES OF 6 TO 9 FEET ARE EXPECTED TODAY,
BUILDING TO 10 TO 14 FEET ON SATURDAY.
But good news … we are having dinky high tides this weekend.
The lifeguards say the waves today are (((( 5 to 9 )))) feet high ….
(((( The WNW swell peaks. Small S swell. S winds developing through the day. ))))
Those are (((( fair )))) surfing conditions …. according to the lifeguards.
((((( Low tide is at 8:36.
High tide is only 2 point 7 feet … at 2:15.
Low tide tonight is at 7:19. ))))
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