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Waves in Europe are getting higher, threatening coastal residents

sudshr47 April 26, 2018

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Massive waves poured over English sea defenses during the cold and stormy winter of 2013-2014. These waves were the most powerful scientists have ever recorded on Europe’s Atlantic coastline.

The storms that generated these waves may have been unusually intense, but they were part of a trend that is putting coastal communities at greater risk. In a study published this week in Geophysical Research Letters, scientists found that wave heights have risen everywhere along the west coast of Europe — from Scotland down to coastlines north of Portugal — over nearly the last 70 years. 

Taller waves can wash over traditional defenses against storms, and flood communities that lie behind these sea walls.  Read more…

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Photos and videos show flooding, damage from historic storm along East Coast

sudshr47 March 2, 2018

As a powerful nor’easter slams the Atlantic Coast, flooding records in Massachusetts set just two months ago by another storm could fall throughout the weekend, and images and videos of the early stages are already rolling across social media. 
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Weather Service issues ‘Life or death’ warning, as major nor’easter hits Massachusetts

sudshr47 March 2, 2018

With a giant nor’easter slamming into the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, forecasters are using warnings with dire language to inform coastal residents of Massachusetts that this storm will not be an ordinary event. 
In fact, record coastal flooding…

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