Yesterday, Fourth-Highest Tide Ever Recorded at Humboldt Bay, Coastal Flood Warning Issued for Friday and Saturday
Flooding yesterday in King Salmon captured by Sarah Cory.
The tide gauge at the North Spit of Humboldt Bay recorded a water level of 9.74 feet yesterday, January 1, which is the fourth highest tide ever measured at that location, says a preliminary report from the National Weather Service in Eureka. But even higher tides could occur over today and Saturday.
“Record breaking tides are possible,” the National Weather Service posted. This could lead “to water possibly reaching locations never reached before.”
A Coastal Flood Warning is in effect for the Mendocino, Humboldt, and Del Norte coastlines from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. today, Friday, January 2, with forecasters saying morning high tides for the North Spit on Friday and Saturday could approach—or exceed—the record 9.88 feet recorded on December 31, 2005.
For Fields Landing, high tide is 9:50 a.m. on Friday and at 10:42 a.m. on Saturday.
High tide will occur at 9:53 a.m. Friday and 10:46 a.m. on Saturday at the North Spit.
For Moonstone Beach, high tide is 9:38 a.m. on Friday and at 10:32 a.m. on Saturday
On Thursday morning, water pooled across neighborhood streets in King Salmon, partially submerging vehicles and surrounding low-lying homes and businesses. The flooding occurred just one day before the tides are expected to rise even higher.
The National Weather Service says the extreme tides are due to a combination of “[h]igher astronomical tides and enhanced storm surge” which could create potentially hazardous conditions for those living in coastal communities.
Residents in flood-prone areas are advised to take precautions and pay attention to weather and tide reports through the weekend.
Earlier:
King Salmon Flooding Seen During Thursday Morning High Tide, Higher Tides Expected
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Rain+tide change=flooding. End of story.
Climate change is not causing this high water.
Pocket change may not contain pennies, but dont waste it on carbon TAX.
I don’t think anywhere the article mentioned climate change. Just you.
Eh.They’re like that samoa dunes guy; never misses a chance to spout off about their crusade, no matter how irrelevant to the topic.
Dan, Dan, Dan…
That was totally uncalled for…
Unless, of course, “Ignorant dipshit”, is Amophylla’s “common name”…
👍 made me laugh.
Are you saying coastal wetlands did not exist before beach grass was planted? WRONG! We haven’t lost any foredune as a result of restoration to remove beach grass.
To have understand the relationship between the amount of atmospheric CO2 and sea levels you really need to study millions of years of paleoclimactic history. I’m sure you’ve done that right Mr. Clark?
look at ‘weather’ over the last million years, I’m sure you’ve done that. Most CO2 is from ocean life.
And I am sure you have studied ice cores, Mr. Dirt Hippy. Not! BIngo! You might start with the ones from Vladivostok. CO2 is not a pollutant. Without CO2, life dies. With excess CO2, life flourishes even more. It’s called greening the planet. Like when the Arctic was a tropical rainforest. The odd Democrat Party pushed scheme that CO2 is a pollutant is them preaching to their quoir of political science dim bulbs who cannot screw in a lightbulb correctly and cannot figure out what xylem and phloem are, thinking they are two vacationers from Senegal rather than nutrient and water highways.
It’s not just “odd Democrats” who believe in climate change, it’s scientists around the world as well.
Even George Bush admitted it was happening, towards the end of his time in office.
Everyone else was too busy partying with P.Diddy and Epstein.
It’s all Love?
Are you implying something beyond the obvious that there is only one Uniparty?
Scientists?
The term means little in the current age.
Prediction from one who knows the future paths of probability, we will suffer an ice age and shrinking of oceans before we suffer a warm period. source ; the sun told me when i stare in to it and ask.
evolution is driven by death of forms, so in this we will see the womb of chaos at work. Rejoice your time of learning is almost over, what choice will you make.
thanks for the using the terms “xylem” and “phloem” Al L. Invesmatr! I really needed a high school biology refresher course today.
I wouldn’t listen to him…
You are delusional. Oxygen is toxic at higher concentration as is nitrogen. As such, your “red herring” that CO2 is necessary for life is BS. Even the oil companies recognized climate change would occur as a result of excessive anthropogenic CO2. Are you a scientist? Why are there no peer-reviewed scientific papers that refute the overwhelming evidence of anthropogenic climate change? The energy industry pours millions of $$ into trying to refute climate change, yet they haven’t produced a single peer-reviewed paper refuting climate change? The energy industry spends more on refuting climate change than has ever been spent by “democrats” to fund research. We wouldn’t have gone to the moon and the computer in your hand wouldn’t exist if scientific research worked the way you think it does.
IMHO: Not sure on that claim.
Recent… Global data:
Between 1901 and 2018, the average sea level rose by 15–25 cm (6–10 in), with an increase of 2.3 mm (0.091 in) per year since the 1970s.
Historically… the sea level has been ‘all over the place’.
Currently In the inter-glacial ‘earth history’ graphs we are right in the ‘top’ of sea level changes.
Where do we from here ?
Short term, sea level will probably rise.
Long term… probably another glacial period and the sea level will decrease.
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More about sea-level changes here:
https://johnenglander.net/chart-of-420000-year-history-temperature-co2-sea-level/
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On the other hand… there is some interesting er… ‘local’ stuff going on.
1970 (or thereabouts)… bay water came up to 1st street in Eureka. (Seen that).
1890’s ‘Old Town’ Eureka. Flooded the lumber mills and put out all the boiler fires that used to line the bay. (Didn’t see that).
King Salmon (and vicinity) has sunk about 6″-8″. That ocurred during the 7.1 ‘nighttime’ earthquake in 1980. Couple of the ‘clam digging mud-flat’ islands in the bay disappeared below the waters. Overpass at the College of Redwood exit was destroyed.
Proximity of that fault doomed the PG&E Nuclear Plant.
Humboldt Bay area has ‘sunk’ about 4′-6′ during the last Cascadia earthquake (1700).
Coastal land rises during crustal compression… and the land sinks during earthquake release.
You can read about the 1700 quake here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1700_Cascadia_earthquake
Please. Citing a website is not scientific proof. Where are the peer-reviewed papers regarding climate change and the effects on sea-level?
The actual question to be asked always is, did the water go up or the land go down? The issue is the frame of reference of human observation is usually standing on the ground….
In Anchorage Alaska, the tide will be 29′ today and 31 on Saturday. Must be all the Glaciers melting off up north.
And? Cook Inlet has one of the highest tidal ranges in the world. Literally, like the 4th highest in the world. It’s no Bay of Fundy, though.
Yeah. I worked out of the Naknek River at the head of Bristol Bay; tidal range of around 25′. It was a major pain with a nearly 100′ boat with a V bottom and hard chine. It would be on the mud for part of the day and we had to let out or pull in the ropes a lot to keep it upright. And… you really want to get out fast before the tide got too low or you’d bottom out.
I learned a lot about tidal ranges from that experience. Including the above factoid about Cook Inlet.
BINGO!
You’re partly right.
Melting glaciers do contribute to sea level rise.
I see a lot of disconnect in what part of a glacier contributes to it. Remember the “floating ice cube in a glass” memes from years ago? People said it can’t happen because ice is already floating? They either through ignorance or purpose forgot that there’s a lot of ice that is not floating and also melting. Antarctica and Greenland in particular, as well as large ice fields that have receded considerably in just the last 40 years, let alone 100. And there’s one industry that is very keen on capitalizing on that melt: mining companies and every other metals hustler out there.
clueless…
I sure feel sorry for the folks living in King Salmon and other low laying coastal areas when it floods. I lived through the 1955 and 1964 flood and it just left many homes ruined or completely washed away. Human lives along with many animals were killed. The flooding just brings back muddy memories for me. I wish everyone the best.
Today, and this weekend is one of the times when you can visit your next-door neighbor in a boat.
Unfortunately, that is very true.
The neighbor in the boat is the only one who doesn’t need to worry. Sittin’ high and dry, like a duck, sippin’ rum on the deck.
When I moved here 30 years ago, I thought it’d be quaint to live in a little Popeye village like that, but, as it was winter when I got here, I decided, very quickly, to plant myself a bit higher up the slope. I feel for those folks and hope they fare well.
Just call it a hoax and bury your head in the sand. It will all go away.
God willing, it will all go away.
If you want to see what NOAA has to say about sea level rise here at the North Spit they have a website you can visit. They have been monitoring sea levels around the world for a pretty long time. Since 1977 here. This is what they say about Humboldt Bay:
“The relative sea level trend is 5.04 mm/year with a 95% confidence interval of +/- 0.74 mm/year based on monthly mean sea level data from 1977 to 2024 which is equivalent to a change of 1.65 feet in 100 years.”
This link will take you to their map of the world. Click on any arrow to see a specific location and data. It’s worth noting that the land mass in some places is subsiding and some places the land is rising making it seem like sea levels are dropping.
Click on any ‘linear trend’ and it shows a straight line upward or downward. If sea levels were accelerating the line would have an upwards curvature. I haven’t found one.
Sea Level Trends – NOAA Tides & Currents
IMHO:
‘Long term history’ of Ocean levels/CO2/Temps.
Human existence… is just a ‘blip’ on the global timeline.
A lot can happen in a geological blip.
The Permian-Triassic “Great Dying” saw a catastrophic rise of over 10°C (18°F) in global temperatures over a few thousand years. But, while that event had natural causes, it is humans who have kicked off this lasted round of warming. Thanks to our burning of fossil fuels, global temperatures are rising even faster today than they were back then. This led to the planet’s worst mass extinction event, when up to 80 percent of all species died out.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aat1327
A 10°C rise in global temperatures would also result in sea levels that are over 200 feet above where they are today.
Sure, none of use here today will be there then, but we do have a bit of a moral obligation to not burn the whole place down as we leave.
>”when up to 80 percent of all species died out.when up to 80 percent of all species died out.”
Happened before… (repeatedly).
Probably going to happen now…. don’t worry !
Over 99% of all species that have ever lived on Earth are extinct, a number potentially reaching billions, with scientists estimating at least 5 billion species gone, though exact figures are impossible due to the vast unknown biodiversity, with only a fraction of living species documented.
>”Sure, none of use here today will be there then, but we do have a bit of a moral obligation to not burn the whole place down as we leave.”
Oh… Earth probably won’t burn. Planet might be headed back (temporarily) to the climate of the previous ‘dinosaur ages’. Abundant water, abundant CO2, abundant O2 and fantastic amounts of plant growth. The Sahara desert might be a grassland again.
Later on, the Milankovitch cycles will revert the earth to another ice age… or… there will be another ‘cosmic’ event that might extinct all life on the earth.
Meanwhile… enjoy !
Sure. The climate is cyclic. The Democrats are determined to fool the fools to grab the Ring. Protip: ya ain’t getting the Ring back. Y’all have proven you are bullies and power hungry gorgers who thrive on the misery of others while perched on high. Not gonna happen. Game over.
Perhaps low lying areas are not a good place to live or rebuild. We have 5 year storms 10 year storms, 50 year storms and 100 year storms. We n need to reassess these lessons learned.