Mother’s Day weekend forecast
Gusty winds are expected tonight through Sunday for the Santa Barbara South Coast and mountains. A wind advisory is in place through 3AM Saturday. Marine layer clouds and fog will affect most coastal areas and adjacent valleys during the night and morning hours through next Friday. Afternoon temperatures will be near normal through early next week then will warm through mid week. This weekend expect highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s along the coast, and 80s inland.
Low clouds persisted along portions of the coast South of Point Conception until late Friday afternoon, this kept temperatures mild in the mid 60s to low 70s for both the coast and valleys.
This Malibu photographer captures images of great white sharks along the Southern California coast, many just feet from unknowing swimmers and surfers.
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Carlos Gauna surveys the wind-blown waves off a popular Santa Barbara County beach. It is a cold, gray afternoon and only a few people are in the water: a father teaching his son to surf, a lone man wading in the whitewash.
Gauna launches his video drone, hoping to spy what might be moving stealthily among them great white sharks.
In decades past, this might have seemed a quixotic venture. Great whites were thought to be somewhat rare in these southern waters, wandering now and then from the wilder coast up north. Most surfers considered it supremely improbable that one of these apex predators was hunting for food at their break.
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The good news continues to pile up in the protracted war against the coronavirus, and Noozhawk’s Brooke Holland provided a snapshot of the gains in this week’s COVID-19 Update email.
There was definitely a setback with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which the government has paused after “six confirmed U.S. cases” of a rare and severe blood clot were reported among the nearly 7 million J&J doses administered.
But as of this week, about half of Santa Barbara County’s residents age 16 and older have received at least one COVID-19 shot, and 21 percent of the county’s 446,000 residents have been fully vaccinated. Most seniors and our most vulnerable citizens are now protected.