June 3, 2016
Paris " French officials say (click here) that the Seine River is still rising in Paris as France's unseasonable spate of rainfall begins to taper off.
Traffic in the capital was snarled as flooding choked roads and several Paris railway stations were shut. The country's environment ministry said the Seine had not reached such levels since 1982.
The Louvre Museum is closed Friday as staff work to remove artworks from rooms threatened by the rising waters.
French President Francois Hollande has said that a "natural disaster" will be formally declared next week in a Cabinet meeting for areas most affected by the flooding that has hit Paris and France's central regions.
June 4, 2016
June 4, 2016
Paris " The swollen Seine River kept rising Friday, (click here) spilling into Paris streets and forcing one landmark after another to shut down as it surged to its highest levels in nearly 35 years. Across the city, museums, parks and cemeteries shut down as the city braced for evacuations.
The Seine was expected to peak in Paris early Saturday at about 5 meters (16 feet, 3 inches) above normal. Authorities shut the Louvre museum, the national library, the Orsay museum and the Grand Palais, Paris' striking glass-and-steel topped exhibition center.
"We evaluate the situation for all the (cultural) buildings nearly hour-by-hour," said Culture Minister Audrey Azoulay, speaking to journalists outside the world-famous Louvre. "We don't know yet the evolution of the level of the Seine River in Paris."
At the Louvre, home to Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa," curators were scrambling to move some 250,000 artworks from basement storage areas at risk of flooding to safer areas upstairs. The Louvre will stay closed through Tuesday and the Orsay Museum, known for its impressionist art, closed through the weekend.
Nearly a week of heavy rain has led to serious flooding across a swathe of Europe, leaving 16 people dead and others missing....
Sea level rise and an angry troposphere with high velocity winds pushing the ocean to rise over any barrier to prevent flooding. The surface of Earth's two fluid environments, the oceans and the wind. There is a scientific name for this phenomena called "Air-surface interface." The air - surface interface cannot be controlled and turns sea level rise into a nightmare never in the planning to prevent impact on coastal cities.
15 January 1969
By Jin Wu
Based on the compiled data of thirty independent oceanic observations, (click here) this article systematically presents the wind-stress coefficient, the surface roughness, and the boundary layer flow regime at the air-sea interface under various wind conditions....
June 6, 2016
Houses on Sydney northern beaches have been swept into the sea.
Houses in Sydney's northern beaches (click here) copped a battering, as huge seas swept away the yards of multi-million dollar beachfront homes.
Up to 10-15 metres of waterfront land washed away as residents returned to their homes to assess the damage after being evacuated.
In total seven homes and a unit block were evacuated as eight metre waves battered the coast....
