The Kelvin Wave has hit Laguna Beach.

Macaulay's news and search reports. That's what everyone's calling my thing now. Fast times in Southern California. Fast times. We're gonna do a quick little session at the wedge and then go show you your favorite thing to see, the crack in the hill. See if there's any progression of the Crystal Cove crack and then just do another little run by Laguna Beach. Check out some spots that have been seriously compromised insane summer waves and yeah this this morning we actually have some really fun surf paired with offshore winds so it's gonna be looking very pretty today I think hopefully we get some skim waves that wedge all right back to you with the crack later usually there's not that patch of rocks over there that is completely new to me I've never seen that but apparently this jetty used to be called the hook go start all the way out there hook into here and that was end of the hook like like a candy cane so where we're standing right now is rocks as well but these haven't been uh unearthed probably since it was built which is pretty crazy i'm not a wedge historian but that's just what i've heard and typically the sand extends like well past that little outcropping rocks yeah normally we're we're skim boarding past that danger high surge sign the best days at wedge i've ever had are all skimming way out past that danger high surf sign this side is coming off a completely new part of the jetty and it's a completely different wave wow oh my gosh you can see how eroded it is even over here perfect conditions for wedge offshore winds and just a perfect little skim day what the hell that's a full-on airbag probably not good that thing was low dang every day i come here there's something crazy that's going on it's insane this is a looks like they're rescuing someone right where the cliff zone is hopefully the cliff didn't like fall down with cars on it or something but that helicopter is definitely right at the zone it was like there and then it was gone just wrapped around the corner wow look how brown that water is from the cliff that's for sure like three inches lower than it was yesterday yeah and then yesterday they're measuring it all the way over here which is it goes basically up to pch that's really close to the road yeah that's basically on the road it cracks up to the road it basically cracks that there might even be some asphalt like right around there look it goes all the way through to oh there it is again pops up right there and you can see it down the line yeah that's pretty scary look at that chunk that calved off yeah it's like a glacier calving so i guess the crack really didn't look all that much different today i do think that every day there's probably it's probably the cliff has probably been coming down a little bit because that shadow is looking a little deeper every day you could definitely see the crack pretty easily the crack going up really close to PCH some Caltrans people today checking it out again there is some medevac helicopter checking it out and a lot of mud in the water which means that there's definitely still some active erosion happening and the interesting thing to think about is that we're having this Kelvin wave from the El Niño where basically tide gauges in California are reading a foot above what is forecasted so a five foot high tide is actually a six foot tide can you describe what a Kelvin wave is yeah so Kelvin wave is a phenomenon that happens when there is an El Niño year what creates the El Niño is west wind bursts and that's blowing wind from the western Pacific near the like equatorial region to the eastern Pacific and is what makes the water warmer it basically blows from one side of the Pacific to the other brings warm water from one side to the other through these west wind bursts and it piles all the wind if it's consistently windy in one direction it kind of basically moves the ocean from one side of the Pacific to the other and piles the ocean on the other side and it moves all that warm water not only do you have like the ocean kind of getting stacked up on itself but you also have warmer water which leads to thermal expansion so like the water being warmer means it it thermally expands and it's actually larger so yeah that's a lot to a lot to digest and i don't know if i explained it super well no i think so and it also it also affects certain aspects of the marine life so for example like there's been a massive die-off from the sea stars so because we don't have the sea stars the sea urchins have proliferated and because of that they're eating all the kelp so we don't have the kelp forest so like it trickles down in ways that don't affect it in a typical year where we maybe have like a week or too of warm water it's been months of warm water the water was already like 70 degrees in like june which you never get that warm water in june it's now middle of october and it's still i was trunking it this morning water was 70 degrees it's been an insane summer i was just gonna pull off here and see what's going going down over here i'm not a big town guy but i do know what thalia used to look like and it was waves used to break out there now they're just breaking into the rocks usually the sand comes up to this staircase can i go get a clip of the palapa with that thing yeah for sure dude maybe not right now the palapa no beach down there at all i hope the sand's like out there somewhere still this could be a problem at the end of the month there's not that much swell in the forecast as of right now this is for 10 27 10 28 look at this 6.6 feet in the morning so that would be a seven that would be a 7.6 foot high tide with the kelvin wave and if you have any waves paired with a seven foot high tide that's gonna be yeah almost in that like i've never seen tide that high in my life i've never experienced a kelvin wave like this in my life i mean you don't even need waves probably with that high of a tide for this bluff to continue to get eroded i came down here to eat my as I bowl it is really sad this is such a beautiful parking lot and it's just getting absolutely destroyed i can't believe we just pulled over and watched all that happen we watched a big set come the moment they're pulling a palm tree out of the the ground there's backwash explosions in the background every day if you're at the beach long enough something crazy is gonna happen something's bound to happen the party truck now roll up and open up a tiki bar