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Through Wednesday morning, 4 to 8 inches of rain could fall in the Santa Lucia Range, the mountains that tower over coastal towns including Morro Bay, Cambria and San Simeon as well as the Big Sur area.

As you head west, you’ll glimpse Morro Rock and the blue Pacific in the distance.

In July, the California Energy Commission approved a plan for wind development that centers on deepwater wind farms off Morro Bay and Humboldt Bay, supported by new port facilities in Long Beach and Los Angeles.

Neither of those obstacles would necessarily halt all progress on California’s projects off Morro and Humboldt bays.

Barbie Halaska, a necropsy specialist with the Marine Mammal Center, showed visitors the milk-rich tissue enveloping the single six-inch incisions she had made in the chests of six of the dead sea lions that had died at the Morro Bay center.