California King Tides Project

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Tamalpais Junction exit off of Hwy 101, Mill Valley. A big rig drives into a deeply flooded road.

Thank you to everyone who contributed #KingTides photos to the California King Tides Project. Your photos help us understand the impacts of sea level rise and the climate crisis. Today's king tides are tomorrow's every day high tides. See the photos at arcg.is/0Gy5Cq

Tamalpais Junction exit off of Hwy 101, Mill Valley. A big rig drives into a deeply flooded road.

Thank you to everyone who contributed #KingTides photos to the California King Tides Project. Your photos help us understand the impacts of sea level rise and the climate crisis. Today's king tides are tomorrow's every day high tides. See the photos at arcg.is/0Gy5Cq

California just experienced its warmest December since 1895, shattering the previous record by 1.3 degrees.

That may surprise people in the bay and valley, but late-month warmth also offset the cold start there and a ring of records encircled the state.
Read: www.sfchronicle.com/weather/arti...

The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of:
- Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute
- operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history
- Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used

Record-breaking King Tides in California and the context of sea level rise. Plus: El Niño cometh? - YouTube The latest in a recurring series of live, virtual, & interactive "office hours" hosted by Dr. Daniel Swain on various topics related to extreme #weather and ...

Questions about the highly disruptive recent King Tides in Northern California in the context of sea level rise? How about the potential for a (significant) El Niño event to develop by spring or summer? Join me live on Wed, Jan 7 at 2pm PT to discuss!

Looking down from an access ramp, the beach is under water. The Golden Gate Bridge is in the distance.

China Beach was under water during #KingTides on Jan. 3

Yes it did. Saturday Jan. 3 #KingTides

Marin County Looked Like ‘a Lagoon’ After King Tides, Heavy Rain | KQED Flooding in Marin County this weekend foreshadows a far wetter future due to human-caused climate change.

🌧️Marin County Looked Like ‘a Lagoon’ After King Tides, Heavy Rain

“We’re seeing stronger storms as we go forward, and the predictions are that we are going to continue to see more intensity in the storms and wilder swings,”

@kqednews.kqed.org @kqedscience.bsky.social

www.kqed.org/news/1206864...

A No Parking, Dogs On Leash sign sits in the water of the flooded marsh. Morro Rock is in the distance.

Windy Cove, Morro Bay, #KingTides 1/3/2026

Water covers the seat of a bench in a flooded plaza.

Thank you #KingTides photographer for capturing the progression of this bench's inundation! #UnderwaterBenches
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King Tides Project Photo Survey Survey123 California King Tides Project

Phew this was quite a #KingTides season. If you haven't uploaded your photos yet, you can do that here survey123.arcgis.com/share/046c76.... We're still catching up with your submissions, and you can see them as they're added to the map: arcg.is/0Gy5Cq. TY for creating this record of coastal change!

So delighted to join Friends of Sausal Creek and I (Heart) Oakland-Alameda Estuary for a fun and informative nature walk through Jingletown to the water's edge in Oakland.

Well done, team and great time had by all - even in the rain!

#oakland #kingtide #sausalcreek #sealevelrise #wildlife

YouTube video by Katie Smith Santa Venetia Marsh - King Tide January 4, 2026 Time Lapse

Got some footage of the @kingtides.bsky.social overtopping the outer berm at Santa Venetia Marsh. There is a known population of @thesaltymouse.bsky.social here. Winter #KingTides are likely the deadliest time of the year for SMHM. Luckily the weather was pretty mild during these tides.
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Road is flooded, and a "Flooded" sign blocks the road.

Vision Road at Sir Francis Drake Blvd on Tomales Bay, Inverness #KingTides 1/3/26

Waves crash well above the beachfront walkway

Butterfly Beach, Montecito #KingTides

Benches are nearly all the way underwater in a bayside plaza

It went even higher! #KingTides (2/2)

The #SFBayArea this king tide weekend.

#ClimateChange
#SeaLevelRise

Splash Zone at Fort Point in SF during the King Tides.

The trifecta of King Tides, long period swells and storm surge are pushing crashing waves onto the road at Miramar Beach, Half Moon Bay. (sound on) 1/4/2026

Much of a waterside plaza is flooded.

#UnderwaterBenches in Richmond. #KingTides 1/3/26

Cruised over the the entrance to the Eastern span of the SF Bay Bridge for #KingTide today. Right up to the Bus Entrance Road, with just the cement barrier in between.

Waves cover the beach and crash underneath oceanfront homes

Malibu #KingTides 1/3/26

It was not the best day for that.

A bench is surrounded by water on all sides. It appears to be floating in the middle of flooded wetlands.

Just want to be left alone?
Mill Valley 1/2/26 #KingTides #UnderwaterBenches

Driving through the flooded street in front of a gas station, Mill Valley 1/2/26 #KingTides

The ocean covers nearly all of the beach up to the bluffs. Pier is seen in the distance.

Black's Beach, La Jolla #KingTides 1/3/26

Paddling under the Grand Avenue bridge. Rose Creek, San Diego #KingTides 1/3/26

Still pretty high!