King tides return this weekend; can you help photograph the high water?

FORT BRAGG, CA, 1/18/23 — California’s extreme high tides, known as King Tides, will return this Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 21 and 22. (Extreme low tides are expected Thursday, Friday and Monday). The California Coastal Commission is asking residents to (safely) photograph the high tides along our coastline, to track what future sea level rise could look like as part of the California King Tides Project. 

The project is particularly salient in the wake of our recent high winds, rainfall, and wild surf in a series of atmospheric river storms. Calmer weather “means the photos you take this weekend may not look as dramatic as the previous storm waves,” the commission explained, but offers a look at water levels that will become the norm in the future.