(This content was created with the help of AI.) California’s coast just got a preview of the soggy winter ahead. Record-setting high tides on Monday and Tuesday sent seawater over seawalls and onto roads from San Francisco to Los Angeles, as a strong El Niño combines with an especially powerful alignment of the sun, moon, and Earth, the New York Times reports.
King tides, which started with the full moon earlier this week, also flooded streets and sent seawater into homes in Florida and the Carolinas, reports the AP.
In California, tide gauges logged unprecedented readings, including a preliminary record in Los Angeles Harbor and the highest October tide ever recorded in San Francisco…