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Tropical Storm Elida is set to potentially intensify into a hurricane by Friday as it moves northwestward off the western coast of Mexico.
Southern California beachgoers could be in for a rough ride as strengthening Tropical Storm Elida churns toward hurricane status, whipping up powerful ocean swells expected to slam the region’s coastline.
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Topical Storm Elida forms as strengthening El Niño fuels active Eastern Pacific hurricane seasonTropical Storm Elida formed early Wednesday in the Eastern Pacific, roughly 560 miles south-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California, as a strengthening El Niño fuels an active start to the basin's hurricane season.
Tropical Storm Elida is expected to bring muggy, warm weather to the San Francisco Bay Area, the Sacramento Valley and California coastline.
Tropical Storm Cristobal unexpectedly forms Wednesday in the open North Atlantic. But another disturbance farther south could become Dolly in days.