Shark Attacks Swimmer in Southern California Summer is right around the corner in Southern California and as temperatures rise and the days get longer, people are beginning to flock to the beach. But for one swim group, it was a typical weekend training session at the beaches of Del Mar, California, until it wasn’t. As the group was finishing up their one-and-a-half-mile swim, one of the […] Samantha Gates | June 10, 2024 0 Comments
Los Angeles Receives 1st Ever Blizzard Warning As Unprecedented Winter Storm Sweeps SoCal Los Angeles, CA, has been hit with a blizzard warning as one of the worst winter storms of the 21st century is sweeping across Southern California. According to the Iowa Mesonet dataset, this appears to be the first-ever Blizzard warning Los Angeles has ever seen. Related: SnowBrains Forecast: 2-4+ FEET for California This Weekend Most of the U.S. is experiencing a […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | February 23, 2023 3 Comments
Does the Health of U.S. Cities Correlate with Their Distance to Ski Resorts? This week, Wallethub.com published its 2021 list of Healthiest & Unhealthiest Cities in America. In their report, Wallethub ranks 182 of the most populated U.S. cities by measuring them in 44 categories of what they determined to be key indicators of good health. These indicators range from the number of healthy restaurants per capita to most walking trails per capita […] Brains Liam Abbott | February 10, 2021 2 Comments
Video Shows Newly Re-Opened San Diego, CA Beach Extremely Packed with Surfers At Sunrise on Monday, April 27, San Diego County reopened many of its beaches to the general public, but things got weird quickly. The county discontinued restrictions for beach-goers and surfers while keeping the restrictions for motorized boating in place. But, in less than an hour after one San Diego beach re-opened it was already packed with hundreds of […] Surf SnowBrains | April 28, 2020 0 Comments
Injured Climber Airlifted From Mountains Near San Diego, CA A rock climber was injured while climbing the Descanso Wall in the Cuyamaca Mountains, near San Diego, California, and had to be evacuated from the area via helicopter last Sunday, April 5. The climber was an eighteen-year-old adult male who had fallen approximately 20 feet in the accident and broken his leg, according to Cal Fire Captain Isaac Sanchez who […] Climbing CragBrains | April 10, 2020 0 Comments
San Diego County, CA First in the Country to Order Mandatory Wearing of Masks After discouraging the general public for the past couple weeks from wearing masks unless they are sick or showing symptoms of COVID-19 coronavirus, San Diego County officials today announced an order that starting this Saturday all employees at essential businesses must wear facial coverings, with the general public strongly encouraged to do the same. As of midnight, Friday, April 3, […] SnowBrains | April 3, 2020 2 Comments
Body of Drowned Surfer Found on Popular San Diego, CA Beach The body of a surfer was found at Moonlight Beach, one of the most popular beaches in Encinitas, CA located in North County San Diego on Wednesday afternoon. According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, it appears as if the young man had drowned. Related: How to Spot, Avoid and Escape Rip Tides in the Ocean Lifeguards apparently spotted a surfboard […] SwellBrains | September 13, 2019 0 Comments
San Diego, CA Mountain Biker Shot and Had His Bike Stolen San Diego-area mountain bikers are being warned to be alert after a shooting and bicycle theft Tuesday in north San Diego County. The San Diego Police Department is investigating the incident, which involved a cyclist riding beneath Interstate 15 near Lake Hodges, an area popular among mountain bikers. According to police reports, a 37-year-old male was riding his bicycle eastbound on the […] Biking CycleBrains | August 8, 2019 0 Comments
Mountain Lion Killed After Suspected Attack on 4-Year-Old Boy Near San Diego, CA Wildlife officers said Tuesday that they killed a mountain lion in a San Diego County nature preserve and will try to determine if it was the animal that injured a 4-year-old boy during a group hike a few hours earlier. The boy was hospitalized following the attack Monday and treated for head injuries that were not life-threatening, California Department of Fish […] SnowBrains | May 31, 2019 1 Comment
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