A glacial outburst flood from the Suicide Basin (pictured here) and the Mendenhall Glacier caused a record amount of water (we are talking more than 22,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools) to flood the Mendenhall River Valley and northern Juneau, Alaska. This is the second year in a row that the entire basin has drained, causing back-to-back years of record flooding downstream. Scientists who study these events and Alaska's changing and warming climate say that these types of floods would not be po
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Suicide basin, near Juneau, Alaska filled with water beginning on May 16, 2016 then drained after a glacial outburst on July 1, 2016. The Mendenhall River, near Juneau Alaska, is experiencing high flows that threaten homes and other infrastructure downstream. USGS field crews, in cooperation with the City and Borough of Juneau, are on-site measuring the river flow to verify readings from the USGS streamflow monitoring station. The National Weather Service issues flood forecasts based on this sta
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