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The National Weather Service issued a special weather statement indicating that it could take up to six days for the basin to ...
The NWS in Juneau issued a flood warning for parts of the area around the Mendenhall River. A "crest" is expected Wednesday ...
A wave of water gushing out of an Alaskan glacier is threatening significant, potentially record-breaking flooding in Juneau ...
“A glacial outburst has occurred at Suicide Basin. The basin is releasing and flooding is expected along Mendenhall Lake and ...
Alaska's capital of Juneau faced record floodwaters due to rainwater and snowmelt flowing downstream from a basin dammed by ...
Hood boarded a helicopter to investigate. Flying over the glaciers at the head of the Mendenhall River, he saw collapsed ice ...
One of Alaska's most populated cities is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as a basin dammed within the ...
An overflowing glacial lake caused a surge in the Mendenhall River on Wednesday, prompting flood alerts and evacuations in ...
City officials say the flood threat has ended and credit barriers with preventing more damage from the Mendenhall Glacier ...
For eight summers in a row, Suicide Basin has collected, then released, pulses of rainwater and glacial melt through a system of drainage channels beneath the Mendenhall Glacier.
Juneau scientists await unprecedented flood from Mendenhall Glacier’s Suicide Basin Glacier-caused dam could be topped by water as early as Sunday by James Brooks Friday, July 13, 2018 10:25pm ...