South coast

Guides

Short explainers for the parts of the board that decide whether you go. Each one links to the agency that owns the facts, and none of them go out of date on a schedule. The live readings are on the board.

• How to read a bar report
  What restricted, closed and unknown mean on the Umpqua, Coos Bay, Coquille, Rogue and Chetco bars, and the numbers to call.
• Tsunami: what to do, and where to go from each town
  Local and distant tsunamis, warning versus advisory versus watch, and the evacuation map for each town.
• Shellfish closures, explained
  Why clams, mussels and crab close, how closures follow the coastline, and what to do before you dig.