Hurricane Rachel weakens, aims south of Ensenada Play

Hurricane Rachel is petering out to the south of us. The remnants are now a tropical storm, and it will come ashore probably south of Ensenada — but it's giving us heavy surf on top of really big high tides thundering ashore Friday morning. No additional damage reports have trickled in yet.

As predicted, Hurricane Rachel made a sharp right turn and dropped below hurricane status overnight. It's now predicted to come ashore about 100 to 200 miles south of San Diego. Orange County could see some heavy rain and winds, but not so far up the coast as Malibu.

Malibu will probably get some light rain starting late Saturday night or early Sunday morning. By Sunday evening we should accumulate between a tenth and a half of an inch at the outside, and then maybe another quarter inch of rain Monday.

But hurricanes wobble, and a change of track in Hurricane Rachel's leftovers could result in changes to these predictions. A gigantic question mark is how an approaching cold front coming down the coast Monday and Tuesday is going to behave. Will it suck in moisture from the old decaying former tropical storm? We don't know yet.