Multiple high surf advisory warnings were issued on Thursday and Friday morning up and down the California coast amid dangerously high surf and storms.
The worst of the waves would be the 20- to 30-footers along the Northern and Central California coast—Coastal North Bay, San Francisco, Monterey Bay, and Big Sur—lasting until 4 p.m. Sunday, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).
The NWS’s San Francisco office instructed inexperienced swimmers to stay out of the water.
“Large waves can sweep across the beach without warning, pulling people into the sea from rocks, jetties and beaches,” it said in the advisory….