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High Surf in Coastal North Bay Including Point Reyes National Seashore, California
High Surf January 3, 2021 · Coastal North Bay Including Point Reyes National Seashore, California
What the National Weather Service wrote
A family of four was pulled into the ocean at Blind Beach in Sonoma County while playing near the water by a large wave. The mother was able to get out, but the father and two children did not make it https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/father-drowns-trying-to-save-his-children-at-sonoma-county-beach/.
The wider storm
A long period west to northwest swell impacted the coastline in early January with breaking waves 20 to 25 feet, locally to 30 feet, forecast. On Sunday January 3rd a family of four was pulled into the ocean at Blind Beach in Sonoma County by a large wave. The mother was able to get out, but the father and two children did not make it.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 932613. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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