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#Alaska #glacier outburst floods #Juneau, damages more than 100 homes
The glacier flood from the #SuicideBasin swelled the #MendenhallRiver to record levels, causing destructive flooding in Juneau.
By Sheri Walsh, UPI
Published Aug 8, 2024 10:31 AM EDT
Aug. 8 (UPI) -- "A #MeltingGlacier, overflowing from heavy rains in Alaska, unleashed a torrent of water on Juneau where more than 100 homes were damaged in what is being called an 'unprecedented' glacial lake outburst flood.
"The glacier flood from the Suicide Basin swelled the Mendenhall River to record levels, causing destructive flooding in Juneau on Tuesday, nearly one year after the same river flooded on Aug. 7, 2023.
"Glacial lake outbursts occur when a basin fills with water from melting snow, ice and rain -- after Juneau's heavy rainfall in July -- which overtopped the glacier, 'like water overflowing out of a full bathtub,' the city of Juneau explained last week in a warning to residents to prepare for #flooding and evacuations.
"A U.S. Geological Survey camera captured the Suicide Basin glacial lake's gradual rise over the past month and rapid fall pictured Tuesday after the outburst sent water flooding into Juneau below."
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Not just the #GulfOfMaine waters that are cooling all of a sudden...
Waters off Scotian Shelf are cooling, but scientists can't say for how long
Lower temperatures have scientists wondering if decade-long warming trend is over
Paul Withers · CBC News · Posted: May 08, 2024
"Since 2012, ocean temperatures off Nova Scotia at depth have been consistently warmer — by about two degrees above normal.
"For example, near-bottom warming anomalies were detected in the Cabot Strait between Cape Breton and Newfoundland, Misaine Bank off Cape Breton, Emerald Basin on the Eastern Shore and Lurcher Shoal, Georges Basin and Georges Bank off southern Nova Scotia.
"The large and abrupt warming was enough to constitute a regime shift, said Dave Hebert, an ocean climate scientist who has run the Maritimes survey twice annually for many years.
"Regime shift indicates a persistent change in the structure and function of the ocean ecosystem."
#AMOC #GlacialMelt #ClimateChange #ClimateWeirding #NovaScotia
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Archaeologists found a 1,500-year-old sandal frozen in Norwegian ice - Enlarge / Conservation efforts for the shoe included careful reshaping ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1850430 #ancientpeopledidstuff #medievaleurope #ancienteurope #archaeology #glacialmelt #middleages #vikingage #glaciers #science #ironage #norway