King Tides This Weekend; Arcata Marsh Hosts Walk
Woodley Island’s Fisherman’s Memorial nearly underwater last winter on King Tide [photo by NWS Eureka staff]
The California Coastal Commission invites you to take photos during the King Tides in December and January
The California King Tides Project helps people visualize future sea level by observing the highest high tides of today. You can help by taking and sharing photos of the shoreline during King Tides to create a record of the changes to our coast from sea level rise. Find out when and how high King Tides will be near you. Learn how to participate by uploading your photos via a web browser or with a free app. Check back soon to see all the California King Tides photos displayed on an interactive story map.
King Tides are coming:
December 22 and 23, 2018
On Saturday December 22nd, at 10:52 A.M., the high tide will be 8.87 feet
On Sunday December 23, at 11:37 A.M., the high tide will be 8.91 feet
January 20 and 21, 2019.
On Sunday January 20th, at 10:45 A.M. the high tide will be 8.7 feet
and on Monday January 21st at 11:35 A.M. the high tide will be 8.8 feet
And the Humboldt California’s Redwood Coast website says the Arcata Marsh and Interpretive Center will be participating this Saturday:
Friends of the Arcata Marsh (FOAM) is replacing its usual Saturday 2 p.m. general tour with a special 11 a.m. King Tide tour of the Arcata Marsh & Wildlife Sanctuary on Saturday, December 22.
Meet leader Elliott Dabill at the Interpretive Center on South G Street for a 90-minute walk to view the effects that an 8.49-foot tide has on the Marsh.
Loaner binoculars available with photo ID. For more information, call (707) 826-2359.
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Thanks Kelley for the info.
AS Global sea-level rise these King tides could become critical in Humboldt Bay as places like Howard Johnson’s and John’s Auto Salvage and many other businesses are already below the high-tide level King Salmon can also be a place that has a lot of potential for damage especially with storm surge and heavy rains Samoa peninsula as well as the lowlands of Arcata and McKinleyville can take damage direct from the ocean
I noticed Gill’s is for sale.
McKinleyville? McKinleyville is 150 ft above sea level if ocean gets there McKinleyville will be least of the worries
If you take Murray Road our school Road and go west you have the Mad River and then some Bluffs and then the Pacific Ocean a little bit north and the mouth of the Mad River I’m pretty sure that this whole area is not 150 ft above sea level next time I go there I’ll try to remember to bring a measuring tape and I’m pretty sure this area is considered McKinleyville and with sea level rise and River silt accumulation can change Where the River empties in the future and the possibility of 30 ft waves are bigger and King tides plus you have the possibility of the Mad River Running high from storms at the same time well maybe you’re right a 150 ft that’s a long ways up
Yeah I hear that could be higher than I thought thanks Douglas you might be right
Hey Doug you are right the lower end of McKinleyville is pretty high up there and probably won’t get anything to do with sea level rise the only thing that could get you is Godzilla
Dont forget Godzilla
Yeah the Cascadia subduction zone where Godzilla lives
Hey Joe Dirt back in the old days I used to live on Buhne Dr in King salmon During the winter time with storm surge and High Tides used to get into some of the garages in a few places down there. And if you parked in the wrong place waves can come in right through the bay entrance. Some people actually surf in the mouth of the bay at times. There is a wall of rocks in front of the PG&E plant to deflect the breaker that come in most of the time. the breakers don’t go south onto Buhne Dr but things could get pretty wet there. I don’t know if any damage was done in the last storm with 30 foot waves from the north and pretty High Tides. You can wake up with the mess there. Hopefully most people see it coming inch by inch and not. While they’re sleeping
Thanks Kelly will be good to go looking around and take pictures my dad used to be head of the California Coastal Commission when it started so I would love to help them document things with photos
The sea level has risen about 7 inches in the last century and the same in the century before. Every time King tides happen we hear the same thing, but no mention of how much and when. Al Gore prediction of 20 feet could be true but would take 3400 years.
Same is true when we have a hot spell, climate change panic mongers speak out.
President Obama once had to return early from a global warming conference because of the DC airports were going to close due to a massive snow storm. Hardly reported.
Well I’ve never seen the fisherman’s Memorial with that much water surrounding it so I guess the King tides are doing something and it does appear that the Lower Side of McKinleyville is in a tsunami watch area so there is possibilities of something happening there it is only in a yellow zone so most likely it well be okay for quite a while no nothing to fear you just might not want to put yourself In Harm’s Way
I hear of sneaker waves taking away people that are not aware. You can come join me at Davy Jones Locker under the sea. Just so you know you’ve been warned Old Salt might be hiding around the corner. As time goes slipping into the sea
Be nice mr. Jones
It’s amazing how many underwater structures they’ve been finding lately all around the world. Structures that could have only been above water during the last ice age. I wonder how many people have been displaced and how high the sea level has risen in the last 10000 years. How long have we been burning fossil fuels?
Next they will sponsor a walk through an active volcano, to give you some idea what the environment will be like after global warming…..
Yeah you could sit on top of Old Faithful and get some kind of idea
Ice ages do come and go, the key issues for species’ survival is how dramatic the temperature shift and how fast it happens.
Humans have ‘repatriated’ many gigatons of previously sequestered carbon.
Atmospheric carbon is acidifying, and it heats up the atmosphere. Not so good for us mammals.
Back to this, Predictions are that the speed of sea level rise is about to increase. Sea ice has melted and now land ice will begin to slide into the sea.
We’ll all learn together how quickly. But the King tides tell me it’s not too soon to plan for a dramatically different coast line.
Some scientists say that the oceans temperature is higher this year then from when they first started measuring it in 1940 and higher temperatures alone can raise the ocean levels and also affect weather patterns around the world and keep sea ice from forming which could have a dramatic effect on land ice and Glaciers the Solomon Islands have lost five Islands due to sea level rise and 6 more Islands have lost more than 20% of there land mass forcing people to relocate just because we can’t see it from our house doesn’t mean that it’s not happening plus some of the corporations just like polluting up our air they think money is more important and they really don’t have to there’s a big solar project over in Blue Lake that’s pretty cool thanks again Kelley
the rounding of the earth due to lack of weight (land ice) on the poles is anticipated to be the most dramatic effect coming our way.
Not exactly. Supposedly Mitrovica’s new analysis would predict a flatter earth with a slower rotation. Causing more inundation at the equator and less at the poles. Very small of course. https://harvardmagazine.com/2016/09/the-plastic-earth
When you look at heating Trend graphs from the last 500 years, it certainly looks like we’re in trouble. It seems amazing how fast the planet has warmed up.
https://www.google.com/search?q=global+warming+graph&client=ms-android-uscellular-us&source=android-browser&prmd=inv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj9s9_-lrXfAhVsc98KHcfWC78Q_AUoAXoECAwQAQ&biw=360&bih=512
But if you go look at graphs of the last six known ice ages, it becomes painfully obvious that our Holocene period is not unique, it’s less of a temperature swing than the last four ice ages…
https://www.google.com/search?q=ice+age+graph&client=ms-android-uscellular-us&hl=en&prmd=inv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjq0tXLmLXfAhUpm-AKHePJAbkQ_AUIBygB&biw=360&bih=512