Rip Current · Puerto Rico

Rip Current March 3, 2023 · North Central, Puerto Rico

Deaths

Injuries

What the National Weather Service wrote

A group of five tourists was swept away by rip currents at Caracoles beach in Arecibo. Three were able to swim back to the coastline. However, a father and a son drowned.

The wider storm

A long period northeasterly swell combined with locally generated wind waves produced confused choppy seas and large breaking waves during the first week of March.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1076235. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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