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Really? I went to my local beach this year. It was exactly the same as it was 40 years ago.
by nathanaldensr 3y ago
Really? I went to my local beach this year. It was exactly the same as it was 40 years ago.
- woleium 3y agowere you there all year? Its not the height it is on an average day, its how high it gets once or twice a year, usually during a storm.
- zach_miller 3y agoThis is why it’s important to measure things and to forecast. I would be surprised if your memory was perfect, but numbers don’t lie.
- consumer451 3y agoYes, really. Here is the data to back that up, using NOAA's Key West measurements going back over one hundred years. > The relative sea level trend is 2.57 millimeters/year with a 95% confidence interval of +/- 0.15 mm/yr based on monthly mean sea level data from 1913 to 2022 which is equivalent to a change of 0.84 feet in 100 years. https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=8724580 https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station....
- whatshisface 3y agoSand moves inland as sea levels change.
- treyd 3y agoTides complicate measurement, in some areas the sea level rise will be marginal and in some areas it will be huge. What's worse is that it exaggerates the effect of storm surges, which is where the most damage occurs.