Hurricane Seasons, Erosion, Rising Seas, Sinking Land Mass

[Big Tyme]

In case you missed it. There was a storm named Gordon that formed in the mid Atlantic a fuzzeled out today. It did not impact any land mass. The only way we knew anything about it was by weather satellites. Fifty years ago we would have never known the storm existed. Technology is one of the reasons why we know about so many more storms today. They have always existed we just didn't know about them.

Ships existed fifty years ago.

[HelmutVII]

Ships existed fifty years ago.

right but they saw the weather and avoided it with radar. Ships did not name storms or predict their movement. The captains saw them on the radar and avoided them.

While there may have been weather satellites they were not as sophisticated as they are today. Today anybody can go to a website and see time lapse satellite imagery that shows cloud movement and temperature. None of that was available 50 years ago.

[NewsCopy]

Think of a major city in the United States. Chances are, its land is slowly sinking.

A new satellite radar study has now found evidence that the nation's 28 most populous cities are all buckling under the pressure of urbanization, drought, or rising sea levels, to varying extents.

Science Alert

[VObserver]

Think of a major city in the United States. Chances are, its land is slowly sinking.

A new satellite radar study has now found evidence that the nation's 28 most populous cities are all buckling under the pressure of urbanization, drought, or rising sea levels, to varying extents.

Science Alert

Subsidence in many of those cities is a direct result of population growth and changes in lifestyle. The major losses of open land in urban areas, that loss being due to covering much of the urban area with concrete or asphalt, greatly decreases the volume of rainfall that is absorbed in the ground. Combine that with massive increases in withdrawal from groundwater aquifers, and land will subside rapidly.

[Turbine]

In the past 125 years Mexico City has experienced over 60 feet of subsidence due to aquifer depletion.

I put near zero credence into the extra weight theory.

VO's point about urban terrain preventing aquifer replenishment that is 100% valid.

You saw this on Louisiana's alligator habitat 115 years ago when it dried up due to new ditches all over campus preventing the pooling of water.