Californians Head For Beaches

Tue., Feb. 21, 1995

Associated Press

Southern Californians coated themselves with suntan lotion, basked in the sunshine and took cooling plunges in the Pacific on Monday as record winter temperatures nudged toward 100 degrees.

Shorts, sandals, bikinis and tank tops were the uniforms of the day.

“It looks like summer,” said Lt. Steve Wood, a lifeguard in Malibu, as he surveyed the crowd of up to 100,000 beachgoers at Zuma Beach, where rip currents caused trouble for those venturing into the 57-degree water.

It was a record 94 degrees downtown, seven notches above the previous record of 87 set on Feb. 20, 1982.

Beaches in San Diego were jammed for the second day as temperatures fell into the high 70s after setting a record of 90 Sunday.

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