California is a magical place in the winter, the monarchs return to the state to overwinter, Santa Claus arrives on a surfboard, and twice in two months, the waves get very, very high. King Tides, the ...

Water pounded Santa Barbara’s coastline on November 6 for the first king tides of the year — flooding beaches and parking lots and jumping the walls of usually dry lookouts at places like Butterfly ...

Central Coast beachgoers on Thursday can get an early glimpse of a unique ocean phenomena that only happens during the winter. Very high and low tides called King Tides are expected in December and ...

When the moon is closest to Earth and there’s a new or full moon, the sun, moon and Earth line up, causing an extra-strong pull to create an extra-high tide. King tides are two to four feet higher ...

The first time I visited a tide pool near Los Angeles, I didn’t actually know that’s what I was looking at. “Why are all those people gathering over on those rocks?” I remember wondering. “What are ...