Good morning and a warm welcome to your show, Sunny Mornings in San Diego.
I'm your host Melissa, and it's Friday, August 23rd.
You'll be interested to know.
719 years ago, today, in 1305.
William Wallace was executed in London for treason, condemned for leading the Scottish
resistance forces during the first years of the long and ultimately successful struggle
to free Scotland from English rule.
So now you know.
And now it's time for the Surf Report.
Expect waist-high, medium-period swell with occasional chest-high sats on Friday, and
Saturday mornings becoming stomach-to-shoulder high Friday afternoon.
Sunday and Monday mornings will have knee-to-waist-high swell.
Mornings will be glassy with late offshore winds, turning semi-choppy in the afternoons
with wind turning onshore.
Friday at Tourmaline and South San Diego.
It's looking fair in the morning until 9 at 2 to 3 feet.
Then it bumps up to 3 to 4 feet and choppy until sunset.
Best time to ride is at 7 a.m. with a 1.5 foot incoming low tide when the northwest
swell is 3 feet at 11 seconds and the onshore wind is 2 mile per hour.
The first low tide Friday will be a half foot at 6 a.m. with a 5.5 foot high tide at 12.30.
This morning it's cloudy and feels like 66 degrees with 8 mile per hour wind.
The sunset will take place at 7.23 and it will rise again tomorrow at 6.18.
It looks like we're in for a mostly sunny day today with temperatures climbing to around
77 and a west wind at 5 to 10 miles per hour, gusting up to 20.
Tonight.
Expect mostly cloudy skies with a low of 63 and a gentle northwest wind.
Looking ahead in the weather.
Expect mostly sunny days with highs in the upper 70s to low 80s and patchy fog each morning
before mid-morning.
Nights will be partly cloudy with lows in the low to mid 60s and fog returning late.
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Sunny mornings send you.
In local news, the San Diego bound combat ship, the USS Kingsville will be commissioned
Saturday in Corpus Christi, Texas.
This marks the next to last independence class combat ship scheduled to be built for the
Navy.
The 418-foot vessel will later take a berth at Naval Station San Diego, home to 16 other
ships.
Kingsville is designed to travel upwards of 45 miles per hour, making it one of the Navy's
fastest vessels, capable of various roles from searching for sea mines to enforcing
maritime law.
The USS Abraham Lincoln, also based in San Diego, has now arrived in the Middle East.
The United States Central Command confirmed this on Wednesday.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin instructed the carrier 10 days ago to speed up its transit
to the region to potentially assist Israel against a possible attack by Iran.
Lincoln is the flagship of a carrier strike group that includes the San Diego-based destroyer's
USS Spruance and the USS O'Kane.
Now onto sports.
Joey Votto, a potential future Hall of Famer, announced his retirement yesterday.
Votto, who spent his entire 17-year career with the Cincinnati Reds, decided to retire
after a series of moments, including prolonged recovery from injury, declining performance,
and a contemplative family lunch.
Votto stated, the fans come to watch hunger and aggression.
They come to watch people playing at their very, very best, and he feels like he can't
fulfill that call any longer.
His career included an MVP award, six All-Star appearances, and a gold glove.
In local sports, the Padres at home lost to the Mets 8-3.
And tonight, they're back at it for Game 2 of this series with the Mets.
In top news, a construction worker in Gloterdal, Germany, stumbled upon a hidden stash of
medieval coins from around 1320 AD.
Klaus Volker, while laying underground piping, discovered what he described as small metal
plates.
The coins, totaling almost 2,000, were enough to buy 150 sheep back around that time period.
Archaeologists uncovered the coins from various mints in Germany, Switzerland, and France
despite challenging weather.
This extensive discovery offers new insights into medieval coin circulation and mining
in the Gloterdal region, historically significant for the Dukes of Freiburg.
In business news, the NFL is considering changing its rules to allow private equity firms and
institutional investors to buy stakes in teams.
This decision is expected to be discussed and potentially voted on by NFL team owners
and executives in Minneapolis on August 27.
If approved, private equity firms could own up to 30% of a single franchise, with no single
firm holding more than 10%.
Firms like Arctos Partners and Ayres Management are already in talks with the league.
However, actual investments may still take months to materialize as NFL teams finalize
the details.
In crypto movement, Bitcoin is just over $60,400.
Ethereum is just over $2,600.
And Solana is $143.
Moving on to a more local vibe.
In our community spotlight on health and wellness, we are working with a national Pilates studio
to bring you some free classes, so listen up.
Check out Club Pilates, with several locations in the San Diego area.
Pilates presents a comprehensive wellness approach, cultivating strength, reducing tension,
and elevating mental well-being.
Scientific research affirms its benefits.
So now you can check out Club Pilates for a free class, with locations in Encinitas,
Solana Beach, Oceanside, La Jolla, and more.
Just be sure to tell them Sunny Morning sent you by.
And now back to the show.
Let's talk tech.
Apple has released a new beta firmware for AirPods Pro ahead of the iOS 18 launch next
month.
This update introduces features like head gestures, allowing users to accept or reject
calls by shaking their heads.
It also improves voice isolation in noisy environments and enhances custom spatial audio
for gaming.
The beta firmware is exclusive to AirPods Pro, too.
This update will download automatically when paired with an Internet-connected iPhone.
The Entertainment News.
Cristiano Ronaldo, the Portuguese soccer star, has broken a YouTube record with his
new channel.
In just 24 hours, he gained 20 million subscribers.
On Wednesday, Ronaldo launched his channel, inviting followers to join him on his new
journey.
With only 12 videos, he quickly became the fastest channel to reach both 1 million and
20 million subscribers.
As of Thursday afternoon, he has over 22 million subscribers.
Ronaldo, who has played for top teams like Manchester United and Real Madrid, now joins
other athletes like Tom Brady on YouTube, promising more content to come.
Well, alrighty folks, it's time for the quote of the day.
And today, our quote comes from the Scottish knight, William Wallace.
And he said,
When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then
learned and have ever since kept in my mind.
Dico tv virum, libertas optima rerum, namquam servili, sub nexu vivido, philly.
This means, I tell you a truth, liberty is the best of things, my son, never live under
any slavish font.
And that's a wrap for this morning.
You can check out our Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok for some captivating aerial videos
with local news and the surf reports.
Have an amazing weekend, my good friends.
We'll see you Monday with another episode of Sunny Mornings in San Diego.