Annapolis, Maryland - June 05, 2016: After an overnight stay on their boat, Dennis and Karen Dunn, From Ellicott City, Md., park their dingy at the Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Memorial park to take their three-year-old golden retriever, Angel, for a walk. Puddles are all that is left after a perigean spring tide flooded the touristy City Dock park in historic Annapolis early Sunday morning June 5th, 2016.
A perigean spring tide brings nuisance flooding to Annapolis, Md. These phenomena -- colloquially know as a "King Tides" -- happen three to four times a year and create the highest tides for coastal areas, except when storms aren't a factor. Annapolis is extremely susceptible to nuisance flooding anyway, but the amount of nuisance flooding has skyrocketed in the last ten years. Scientists point to climate change for this uptick.
CREDIT: Matt Roth for The New York Times
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