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Its waves reached 50 feet over the Bering Sea, and its storm surge sent water levels into communities at near record highs along with near hurricane-force winds.
It formed in a part of the Pacific , far east of Japan, where historically few typhoons form. The water there is typically too cold to support a typhoon, but right now, we have extremely warm water in the north-central Pacific. Merbok traveled right over waters that are the warmest on record going back about years. The Western Bering Sea, closer to Russia, has been running above normal sea surface temperature since last winter. The Eastern Bering Sea — the Alaska part — has been normal to slightly cooler than normal since spring.
That temperature difference in the Bering Sea helped to feed the storm and was probably part of the reason the storm intensified to the level it did. When Merbok moved in to the Bering Sea, it wound up being by far the strongest storm this early in the autumn. Because all the atmospheric ingredients came together, Merbok was able to bring that very warm moist air along with it. The most outstanding feature as far as impact is the tremendous area that was damaged.
All coastal regions north of Bristol Bay to just beyond the Bering Strait — hundreds of miles of coastline — had some impact. At Nome — one of the very few places in western Alaska where we have long-term ocean level information — the ocean was In Golovin and Newtok , multiple houses floated off their foundations and are no longer habitable.
Shaktoolik lost its protective berm, which is very bad news. The community is now at greater risk of flooding, and even a moderate storm could inundate their fresh water supply. They can rebuild it, but how fast is a matter of time and money and resources. Another important impact is to hunting and fishing camps along the coasts. There are no roads into these coastal communities, and getting lumber for rebuilding homes and these camps is difficult.
Lots of places also lost power and cell phone communication. The power in these remote areas is generated in the community — if that goes out there is no alternative. These are almost all predominantly or almost exclusively Indigenous communities. Repairs are going to take time away for subsistence hunters, so all of these things are coming together at once.
Historically, with storms later in the season, even a small bit of sea ice can offer protection to dampen the waves. The full wave action pounds right to the beach. As sea ice declines with warming global temperatures , communities will see more damage from storms later in the year, too. As bad as this storm was, and it was very bad, others will be coming. This is a stormy part of the world, and state and federal governments need to do a better job of communicating risks and helping communities and tribes ahead of time.
That might mean evacuating vulnerable people. Almost all of these communities are isolated. I would say this is a classic case of large-scale weather models showing a general idea of the risk far in advance, but it takes longer to respond for isolated communities like those in rural Alaska. By Sept.
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Storm expected to hit areas of Western Alaska damaged by last month’s typhoon remnants Forecasters are tracking a potentially damaging storm. The powerful remnants of Typhoon Merbok pounded Alaska’s western coast on Sept. 17, , pushing homes off their foundations and tearing.