Category: Coastal News

Florida Red Tide Status Update

7/27/2020 - Current Conditions The red tide organism, Karenia brevis, was observed in one Southwest Florida sample over the past week. Additional details are provided below. In Southwest Florida over the past week, K. brevis was present at low concentrations in one Sarasota County sample. In Northwest Florida over the past week, K. brevis was not observed. Along the Florida East Coast over the past week, K. brevis was… SEE MORE

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Storm Surge Causes Widespread Damage Along South Texas Coast

7/27/2020 - By Jonathan Munson. As expected, Hurricane Hanna made landfall at around 5 p.m. Saturday just south of Baffin Bay as a Category 1 storm. What was not expected was the size of its storm surge and the devastation it would leave behind. While the eye of the storm barreled into… SEE MORE

Hanna Officially Becomes a Category 1 Hurricane

7/25/2020 - Hurricane Hanna has formed in the Gulf of Mexico as a Category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 75 mph around the eye wall. Hanna is strengthening and the National Hurricane Center says it is expected to make landfall in southern Texas on Saturday evening. Conditions along the southwestern Gulf… SEE MORE

How Much Will the Planet Warm if Carbon Dioxide Levels Double?

7/24/2020 - By John Schwartz. How much, exactly, will greenhouse gases heat the planet? For more than 40 years, scientists have expressed the answer as a range of possible temperature increases, between 1.5 and 4.5 degrees Celsius, that will result from carbon dioxide levels doubling from preindustrial times. Now, a team of… SEE MORE

Tropical Storm Hanna Forms in the Gulf of Mexico

7/24/2020 - By Madeline Holcombe. Tropical Storm Hannah is heading toward Texas. The system, which formed in the Gulf of Mexico as Tropical Depression Eight on Wednesday night, strengthened into a tropical storm late Thursday. It is the earliest H-named storm in an Atlantic basin hurricane season. The storm has sustained winds of… SEE MORE

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Chicago Park District 2020 Marina Updates

7/22/2020 - Many species of sport fish are found in Chicago harbors throughout the year and others only inhabit harbors during certain times of the year. The Chicago Park District has designated certain areas of these harbors open to anglers fishing from shore. 59th Street Belmont Burnham Calumet Diversey DuSable Jackson (Inner… SEE MORE

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Maryland Fishing Report Week of July 22nd

7/22/2020 - By Erik Zlokovitz. Fhinn Zeender-Lawrence caught this nice pumpkinseed, along with croaker and catfish this weekend with bloodworms off a dock in Edgewater. Photo by Nathan ZeendeThe weather is putting a lot of heat-related stress on both anglers and the summer striped bass population. We ask anglers to focus their… SEE MORE

Douglas Strengthens, Becoming First Hurricane of Eastern Pacific Season

7/22/2020 - By Ben Gutierrez. Douglas has strengthened into the first hurricane of the 2020 Eastern Pacific season. As of the 5 a.m. Wednesday update, Douglas was about 1,785 miles east-southeast of Hilo or 1,500 miles southwest of the southern tip of Baja California. Douglas now has maximum sustained winds of 75… SEE MORE

Tsunami Warning Canceled for Coastal Alaska After 7.8 Earthquake

7/22/2020 - By Anchorage Daily News. A tsunami warning across a large swath of coastal Alaska triggered by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake off the Alaska Peninsula on Tuesday night was canceled by 12:30 a.m. Wednesday after the officials determined the tsunami was no longer a threat. The tsunami warning originally stretched from the Alaska Peninsula to… SEE MORE

New Data Shows an ‘Extraordinary’ Rise in U.S. Coastal Flooding

7/22/2020 - By Christopher Flavelle. Parts of the United States saw record levels of high-tide flooding last year as rising seas brought water further into coastal homes and infrastructure, government scientists reported Tuesday. The increase in high-tide flooding along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts since 2000 has been “extraordinary,” the National Oceanic and… SEE MORE