{"id":1109,"date":"2014-10-20T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:19:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:19:21","slug":"high-tide-flooding-becoming-more-common-in-tybee-savannah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/10\/high-tide-flooding-becoming-more-common-in-tybee-savannah\/","title":{"rendered":"High tide flooding becoming more common in Tybee, Savannah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Savannah Now<\/em> published an article discussing the increase in coastal flooding during especially high tides, and notes that this type of flooding is becoming more common as sea levels rise.\u00a0 The sea levels across the world are rising from a combination of expansion of warmer ocean water and melting of ice sheets in the Arctic.\u00a0 In the case of some locations like Tybee, there is also a small contribution from subsidence of the land in the region.\u00a0 You can read the article <a title=\"High tide flooding Tybee and Savannah\" href=\"https:\/\/savannahnow.com\/news\/2014-10-18\/tidal-flooding-forecast-new-normal-savannah-tybee-island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Washington Post<\/em> noted that these extra-high tides, called &#8220;king tides&#8221;, also factor into politics since they highlight the potential vulnerability of coastlines as sea levels continue to rise.\u00a0 You can read their article <a title=\"Wash Post king tides affect politics\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/florida-politicians-battle-rhetoric-as-rising-seas-drive-worries-over-climate-change\/2014\/10\/17\/e16fa3ce-548e-11e4-809b-8cc0a295c773_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1110\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1110\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/tybee-salt-marsh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1110\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/tybee-salt-marsh-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"Tybee Island salt marsh.  Source: https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Tybee-island-lazaretto-ga1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/tybee-salt-marsh-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/tybee-salt-marsh-240x138.jpg 240w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/tybee-salt-marsh.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tybee Island salt marsh. Source: https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Tybee-island-lazaretto-ga1.jpg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>e.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Savannah Now published an article discussing the increase in coastal flooding during especially high tides, and notes that this type of flooding is becoming more common as sea levels rise.\u00a0 The sea levels across the world are rising from a combination of expansion of warmer ocean water and melting of ice sheets in the Arctic.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-coastal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22955,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions\/22955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}