Local brief
Coastal Flood Warning: Los Angeles County, CA, as Tropical Storm Rachel moves in (through 3 p.m. PT Sunday)
The National Weather Service has Los Angeles County, California, under a Coastal Flood Warning until 3 p.m. PT Sunday, Oct. 11, tied to Tropical Storm Rachel. Stay off beaches at high tide.
The National Weather Service office in Los Angeles/Oxnard, CA has a Coastal Flood Warning for parts of Los Angeles County until 3 p.m. PT Sunday, Oct. 11. NWS says it covers malibu Coast and Los Angeles County Beaches; and catalina and Santa Barbara Islands. For vulnerable south-facing beaches, especially Long Beach and Malibu, damaging sea-water flooding is likely. For all other beaches and harbors, minor coastal flooding is expected. High surf of 5 to 8 feet is also expected with strong rip currents.
Power outages: 135 customers in Los Angeles County were without power as of 4:35 p.m. PT Saturday, Oct. 10 (SCE 135; utility outage maps). Southern California Edison has shut off power for 5 customers on 2 circuits in the county; check your address at sce.com/psps. The full county table is in the Power outages section of the Rachel paper.
At 11 a.m. PT Saturday, Oct. 10, the National Hurricane Center (NHC Intermediate Advisory 54A) placed Tropical Storm Rachel about 490 miles south-southwest of San Diego, California, moving northeast at 22 mph with top sustained winds near 60 mph. A northeastward to north-northeastward motion with a further increase in forward speed is expected through Sunday. On the forecast track, the center of Rachel is expected to approach northern Baja California today and move onshore tonight.
What to do: Stay off beaches, jetties and sea walls around high tide, keep out of the water, and do not drive through flooded beach roads or around barricades.
Follow Rachel advisory by advisory, with every county watch and warning: https://noticenearby.com/papers/tropical-storm-rachel-2026
Sources: NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA Coastal Flood Warning via api.weather.gov (https://api.weather.gov/alerts/urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.9db7aae8eba81971e399b2019ff631e4075346aa.001.1); NOAA National Hurricane Center (https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/MIATCPEP3.shtml). Notice Nearby wrote this brief in its own words. More Los Angeles County notices: https://noticenearby.com/ca/los-angeles
Source: the public notice on this register NN-ENV-ca-los-angeles-tropical-storm-rachel-2026 · NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA · National Hurricane Center.
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