Good morning and a warm welcome to your show,
Sunny Mornings in San Diego. I'm your host, Melissa,
and it's Tuesday, March 31st. You'll be interested
to know, 137 years ago, today, in 1889, Parisians
gathered to unveil the Eiffel Tower, a soaring
iron landmark created as the centerpiece of the
Exposition Universelle and a bold feat of engineering.
Its completion celebrated modern construction
techniques, showcased industrial progress, and
transformed the Paris skyline into a lasting
symbol of innovation and artistic ambition. So
now you know. And now, it's time for the Surf
Report. Tuesday at Tourmaline. This morning,
it's looking fair with one -plus -foot waves
rolling in. Conditions stay pretty consistent,
holding at 1 plus foot through the morning. Winds
are sideshore at around 6 miles per hour, shifting
onshore later in the day. Expect the waves to
stay around 1 foot as we head into the afternoon.
Best time to ride is at 7 a .m., with a 4 -foot
incoming high tide when the south -southwest
swell is 1 feet at 12 seconds. and the sideshore
wind is 5 mph. The first high tide on Tuesday
will be 5 feet just before 9 a .m., followed
by a zero -foot low tide just before 3. The nearshore
buoy at Mission Bay West reads 66 degrees for
the water temperature. Conditions start off clean
with one -plus -foot waves on Wednesday, but
choppy winds develop by afternoon. Thursday sees
a slight increase to 2 feet, remaining choppy
as winds pick up. Expect better conditions on
Friday with 2 to 3 plus feet, particularly in
the morning before the wind shifts, making it
the most favorable day of the period. This morning,
it's cloudy and it feels like 64 degrees with
5 mile per hour wind. The sunset will take place
at 7 .10. and it will rise again tomorrow at
637. It looks like we're in for some mostly cloudy
skies today, with a high near 72 and a light
south breeze around 8 miles per hour. If you're
inland, it will hit a high of 71. Tonight, expect
a chance of rain showers after 11 p .m., with
mostly cloudy skies, a low around 60, and calm
winds around 4 miles per hour. Looking ahead
in the weather. Wednesday has a slight chance
of morning showers before 11 a .m., then turns
mostly sunny with a high near 71 and west winds
5 to 15 mph, gusting to 25. Mostly cloudy Wednesday
night with a low around 57 leads to a mild Thursday
near 69 and lows near 55. Then a warming trend
brings highs near 75 Friday. And you're 79 Saturday
with overnight lows around 57. Bonjour, food
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to tell them Sunny Morning sent you. In local
news, an air quality advisory has been issued
for neighborhoods in southern San Diego after
county environmental officials detected elevated
levels of hydrogen sulfide. in the air from transboundary
wastewater and sewage flows near the Tijuana
River Valley. Hydrogen sulfide is a gas that
causes a strong, rotten egg smell and can lead
to headaches and nausea. The San Diego County
Air Pollution Control District issued the advisory
after levels began rising on March 28 and 29
in Imperial Beach, Nestor, and San Ysidro, with
the highest levels found in Nestor. While the
county is monitoring these levels, changes in
weather or wind patterns may affect them throughout
the day. Now on to sports. Chicago White Sox
rookie Muntak Amirakami has done it again. The
rookie slugger hit a home run on Sunday off Milwaukee
Brewers starter Brandon Sproat, extending Chicago's
lead to 5 -2. after a first -inning grand slam
by Colson Montgomery. This home run marked Murakami's
third in his first three major league baseball
games. He began his career on Friday with a ninth
-inning home run and followed it with another
on Saturday. Murakami has joined Chase DeLotter,
Trevor Story, and Kyle Lewis as the fourth player
to achieve this milestone. At 26 years old, he
is making history in the majors. In local sports,
the Friars fell to the Giants 3 -2 in a close
battle on Monday night, marking rookie manager
Tony Vitello's first victory. Harrison Bader
hit San Francisco's first home run of the season
against Walker Buehler, who made his debut for
the Padres. Despite a late rally highlighted
by Jackson Merrill's two -run homer, The Padres
couldn't complete the comeback. Next up, German
Marquez is set to make his debut with San Diego,
facing Giants pitcher Logan Webb tonight. In
top news, NASA began the countdown Monday for
humanity's first launch to the moon in 53 years.
The 32 -story Space Launch System rocket is poised
to blast off Wednesday evening with four astronauts.
After a day in orbit around Earth, their Orion
capsule will propel them to the moon and back.
There are no stops, just a quick U -turn around
the moon. The nearly 10 -day flight will end
with a splashdown in the Pacific. Our team has
worked extremely hard to get us to this moment,
said launch director Charlie Blackwell -Thompson.
Certainly all indications are right now, we are
in excellent, excellent shape. In business news.
Japan is placing a multibillion -dollar bet on
the U .S. housing market. Home construction is
slowing, but Japanese investors and builders
are moving in anyway, and Sumo owns 6 % of the
business in America. For more than a decade,
Japanese home builders have been tiptoeing into
the U .S. housing market with small, discreet
acquisitions of private American construction
companies. Their quiet era is over. Since 2020,
Japanese builders have announced or closed acquisitions
of 23 U .S. single -family home builders, more
than double the number from 2013 to 2019. Japanese
companies are accelerating their U .S. presence
at a moment when the American home construction
market is slowing down. In crypto movement, Bitcoin
is up 2 % to about $68 ,000. Ethereum is up 3
% to $2 ,000. And XRP is unchanged at $1 .32.
Moving on to a more local vibe. In our community
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Just be sure to tell them Sunny Morning sent
you by. And now, back to the show. Let's talk
tech. Flying cars will take off in American skies
this summer. The federal government announced
a new pilot program designed to get new kinds
of ultralight vehicles and electric vertical
takeoff and landing vehicles up and running around
the country, even if they are not fully Federal
Aviation Administration certified. New kinds
of aircraft will start operating in United States
airspace as early as June. Eight regions across
the United States will take part in a three -year
pilot program. The companies building the technology
say their aircraft are quieter, cheaper, and
release fewer emissions than helicopters or airplanes.
And in entertainment news. Gen Z Is Here to Save
Theaters is the latest report highlighting how
this generation prefers peachy movies and enjoys
outings with their families as social media content.
Disney's Zootopia 2 has surprisingly become the
winning Thanksgiving offering, topping the box
office with $1 .9 million in worldwide ticket
sales. Meanwhile, Disney's live -action Lilo
& Stitch has crossed the $1 billion mark. In
an unexpected twist, Iron Lung, a self -released
film by YouTube star Mark Fischbach, grossed
$40 million, while Scream 7 opened to $64 million,
exceeding expectations. Gen Z is indeed driving
this resurgence in theaters. Well, alrighty folks,
it's time for the quote of the day. And today...
Our quote comes from the American inventor and
visionary Thomas Edison. And he said, Restlessness
and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
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 day, my good
friends. We'll see you tomorrow with another
episode of Sunny Mornings in San Diego.