2026 has already seen flooding on the Embarcadero in San Francisco, on the streets of San Rafael and in Marin City — not from seasonal rainstorms, but from King Tides pushing the ocean and the bay into cities and neighborhoods in Northern California.
Scientists now project as much as a six-to-seven-foot sea level rise along coastal California the remainder of this century. If this happens, it will impact virtually all California coastal cities and towns, including those in the Bay Area, like southern Napa County, where the Napa River empties into the Bay along the American Canyon wetlands. More…
260709 Final Napa Sierra Club Takes Action on Sea Level Rise published July 9
