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Sea Level Rise Will Rapidly Worsen Coastal Flooding in Coming Decades, NOAA Warns

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Coastal communities should expect much more frequent flooding in coming decades as sea levels rise, according to a new federal report.
Nicholas Kusnetz
03/07/2018

Climate change threatens coastal life as we know it

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The Gulf of Maine is getting warm — quick. From 2004–2013, sea temperatures there rose faster than almost any other location on Earth.
03/09/2018

Global warming is already fueling 'high-tide' floods — and it's only going to get worse

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Snow may get the most headlines from nor'easters, but it's the relentless onslaught of waves and water along the coast that can cause the most destruction. 
Doyle Rice
03/08/2018

Record warmth in February 2018

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For two days in late February 2018, temperatures soared across the eastern United States to reach heights that might have reminded residents of early summer.
Tom DiLiberto
03/06/2018

Arctic spring is starting 16 days earlier than a decade ago, study shows

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The Arctic spring is arriving 16 days earlier than it did a decade ago, according to a new study which shows climate change is shifting
Jonathan Watts
03/02/2018

Forecast: Strong Nor'easter Will Batter Southern New England — Especially Along Coast — Today

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From Salisbury to Plymouth, as well as the Cape and the Islands, a coastal flood warning remains in effect from 9 a.m. Friday until 3 a.m. Sunday.
David Epstein
03/02/2018

Once-in-a-generation flooding possible in Boston — for the second time this year

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The National Weather Service is warning that the seas could top 15.3 feet at the tidal gauge in Boston Harbor. Significant impacts will occur during the high tide Friday morning, which falls just before noon.
Matthew Cappucci
03/02/2018

Winter Storm Riley Undergoing Bombogenesis Into a Strong Nor'easter With Damaging Winds, Coastal Flooding, and Heavy, Wet Snow in the East

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Winter Storm Riley is already clobbering the Northeast with damaging winds, heavy, wet snow, as a significant, long-lived, destructive coastal flooding event is just now underway as Riley becomes an intense nor'easter.
Jonathan Belles, Chris Dolce, Brian Donegan, Jon Erdman and Linda Lam
03/02/2018

Winter Storm Riley Knocks Out Power to 500,000; Evacuations Ordered Along Massachusetts Coast; Federal Offices Closed in Washington D.C.

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Half a million homes and businesses were without power from the Great Lakes to the mid-Atlantic to the Northeast on Friday morning as Winter Storm Riley kicked up winds and dumped snow on its trek northeast, where Massachusetts officials told some coastal residents to leave because the power
Sean Breslin
03/02/2018

Biggest Flood in 20 Years Hits Ohio River

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The worst flood event in 20 years is underway along the Ohio River in Ohio and Kentucky, and damaging moderate to major flooding continues from Texas to Michigan in the wake of heavy rains that fell last week in the center portion of the country.
Dr. Jeff Masters
02/26/2018
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