NOAA reporting about August 2023 flooding in Juneau Alaska. “Not every retreating glacier in Alaska is at risk for these glacial lake outburst floods, but those that are can have very serious consequences downstream. …

For the Mendenhall Valley, glacial lake outburst floods are a relatively new phenomena but have become a yearly occurrence since 2011, when the first outburst occurred.”

#Alaska #glacier #GlacialFloods #Mendenhall #Juneau

https://alaskan.social/@AlaskaWx/110899841991873857

Icebergs Once Made It To Southern Florida Pushed By Epic #GlacialFloods

#Iceberg outbursts are known as #HeinrichEvents, and glaciologists are sufficiently familiar with them and so have given them numbers. Condron and Hill collected sediment cores from a number of the south #Florida lines and found they were made 31,000 years ago, from a Heinrich Event 3.

https://www.iflscience.com/environment/icebergs-once-made-it-to-southern-florida-pushed-by-epic-glacial-floods/

#EarthScience