Nor’easters, Battering Waves and Coastal Flooding

This presentation will review coastal flooding and the environmental conditions that lead to both extratropical storm surge and coastal erosion due to the presence of high energy waves along our coastline. These high impact events have occurred with notable storms, including; the “Perfect” and “Patriot’s Day” storms, and most recently, the devastating landfall of “Sandy” in October, 2012. Some examples of collaborative partnerships will be shown that focus on the improvement of predicting erosion from such storms along our shoreline.

Feel free to bring your bag lunch to eat during the presentation.

John Cannon is a senior meteorologist and marine program leader at the National Weather Service in Gray, Maine. He is interested in working with partners to improve the prediction of storm hazards along our shoreline as well as the response by citizens and first responders for the protection of life and property.