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Carmel-by-the-Sea Coast Conditions

Reading the sources…

Carmel-by-the-Sea, Monterey County, California. Its own tide, water, and roads come first, and every reading is dated and linked back to whoever published it.

TodayWeather, the highway, the air and fire danger

Weather

Highways

On the WaterTides, the bars, the marine forecast and shellfish

Tides

Bar conditions

SafetyBeach advisories, earthquakes and tsunami

MoreAlerts, scanner feeds, and what this is

Scanner feeds

Public-safety and marine radio from this county that somebody is streaming online, with what each feed carries.

One feed here carries the Sheriff. The county fire and EMS feed says in its own listing that it now includes the Sheriff’s Office and the CHP; none of the city police departments on this coast — Monterey, Pacific Grove, Carmel, Seaside, Marina — is on any feed. The rest is fire, the CAL FIRE unit for this county, and the weather radio for the bay and the Big Sur coast. Start with the county fire and EMS feed.

Run by volunteers, not by any agency. They play an ad first, run a minute or so behind the radio, and can go quiet without notice; Broadcastify’s page for each one shows whether it is on. Not a way to get help: call 911.

Monterey County

  • County fire, EMS and Sheriff Listed as “Monterey County Fire & EMS”: a scanner on the county’s trunked system, and in the owner’s words “now includes MCSO & CHP” — Sheriff, fire and EMS on the Peninsula. The one to open first.
  • Peninsula fire dispatch Listed as “Monterey Peninsula Fire Dispatch — Command 35”: fire dispatch for the cities of Monterey, Carmel, Pacific Grove, Sand City, Seaside and Del Rey Oaks and the airport.
  • County fire dispatch Listed as “Monterey County Fire Dispatch — Command 31”: dispatch for North Monterey County Fire, Monterey County Regional Fire, Marina, Big Sur Fire, Mid-Coast Fire and the valley departments — the feed for Castroville, Marina and the whole Big Sur coast.
  • CAL FIRE BEU, dispatch and air Listed as “CalFire BEU — Local, Command, Air Attack, Air to Ground”, provided by Watch Duty, a stereo feed with all channels at once. BEU is the CAL FIRE unit that answers for this county, so this is the same agency the fire tile reads.
  • County disaster feed Listed as “Monterey County Disaster Feed”, also from Watch Duty: the fire and air frequencies for the county, all at once in stereo, “so that no audio is missed” — the one to open when something is burning.
  • North County fire Listed as “NorthCo Fire Protection District”: the Castroville and Prunedale district on its own frequency.
  • NOAA Weather Radio, marine Listed as “NOAA Weather Radio Monterey Marine (WWF64)”: the marine broadcast for Monterey Bay and the coastal waters south to Point Piedras Blancas, which is the forecast the marine tile carries, read aloud.
  • NOAA Weather Radio Listed as “NOAA Weather Radio Monterey (KEC49)”: the land forecast and any warnings for the bay area counties, on the loop.

Every link opened and checked September 23, 2026. Feeds on Broadcastify for Monterey County.