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Another weekend rain storm could bring coastal flooding; Morrissey Boulevard gets an NWS shoutout
By adamg on Fri, 03/08/2024 - 3:50pm
The National Weather Service has issued coastal-flood watches for the entire Massachusetts coast for Sunday morning and afternoon, because of Yet Another Rain Storm that could mean 1 to 2 feet of flooding.
Shallow pockets of flooding less than one foot deep affects the lowest lying areas along the coast, including Morrissey Boulevard in Boston.
Coupled with rough surf, that means no surfing in Dorchester Bay.
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More O'Sea Blvd.
Our local poster road for sea level rise and climate-driven flooding is starting to get a more national profile.
Nothing new
the boulevard has been flooding since the early 70’s.
It’s worse than ever
Yeah, the Boulevard has been flooding for a long time. But it’s much more frequent and much more disruptive than ever .
Yes it has
The problem in 2024 is that it floods far more times each year than it did in the 1970s. It also floods more severely, leading to exits and lanes being closed on I-93.
Source
For your own safety, try to keep up with the pace of change.
The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency on mass.gov has some really helpful ways to prepare for increasingly common and severe coastal flooding events. https://www.mass.gov/topics/emergencies-disasters
Your source is a news article
Written by a journalist.
Its been flooding since the beginning of time, the road is at grade literally cuts through the harbor and Dot bay.
Not a great example! This is like being shocked the water rises at hightide.
Oh my, a news article, written by a journalist?!
What website do you think you are visiting? If you don’t see any value or credibility from journalism, I have some news for you about what kind of website this Universal Hub is.
Found the climate denier
Here I thought a first-person narrative would be better than the NOAA stats on tidal flooding, which admittedly don't go back as far.
Find another hobby, anon. Those of us professional scientists who handle climate for a living know what we talking about - as does MassDOT, the City of Boston, MAPC, the special group founded and funded to address the issues, etc.
TL/DR: flooding on More O'Sea has been escalating in the past 15 years. You are full of shit if you don't see that (or you can't see that from Russia)
Warning for John Costello
Don't hold your nose up in the air too much during this weather event
Eh, that muskrat …
… can keep going all day.
Ha Ha Ha
You two little alley puddles are so cute in calling me out again and again for no reason.
I love the rent free in your empty heads existence that I appear to have.
It just smells like beat up a lot in high school and desperation for attention up in here.
The Quabbin checks in
As of this post, the Quabbin Reservoir is about a 1/2" away from being completely full. It hasn't been at 100% since late April 2022.
The summer of that same year was notably dry and the water level dropped 7 feet in about five months to 87%. So for all the rain we're getting now, things can change quickly if we have another dry summer.
Travel Tip: The spillway of the Quabbin creates a nice waterfall. There's a state run fish hatchery only a mile away where 1000 trout will be your friend for the cost of a quarter for a handful of pellets. So next week, you know Ware to visit.
Oversized system, thankfully
The Quabbin is one of the most oversized reservoirs of any major city in the US and the world. It would take 5-8 years of extreme drought for it to drop enough to matter.
Given the state of water systems in the communities that lost land to the Quabbin but don't use it, the state is looking at hooking them up at a discount rate out of equity considerations alone. The additional demand for water isn't an issue.
The problem with drought in our area is that our traditional rainfall pattern isn't very seasonal. Month to month 30-year averages show little variation across the calendar compared to Western states. If we miss enough rainfall one or two months in row, we get a "flash" drought. Drought conditions can vary over the state: in 2016 Nantucket was green as ever while the rest of the state baked. But in 2023-4, despite deluges elsewhere, the Drought Management Task Force has been tracking a drought in the islands - and pretty much only the islands.
Now that's world class.
Now that's world class.
No Surfin
What a great video! I must have been too much of a working stiff to have missed that scene. :-(
I dug it too Man. Nice deep
I dug it too Man. Nice deep dive there @adamg!