Rip Current · Puerto Rico

Rip Current March 24, 2023 · Northeast, Puerto Rico

Death

Injury

What the National Weather Service wrote

A 55-year-old male tourist was swept away by rip currents at Escondida beach in Fajardo and drowned.

The wider storm

Moderate to locally fresh trades and small northerly swell created choppy seas up to 6 feet and occasionally higher across the Atlantic waters. This resulted in life-threatening rip currents along the northern coast of Puerto Rico during the weekend of March 24-26.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1079803. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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