19:30 AKDT Saturday - Record flooding is occurring in the Mendenhall Glacier area of Juneau, #Alaska as the glacial ice dam in the Suicide Basin area has burst.

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https://www.weather.gov/ajk/suicideBasin

Suicide Basin

@ingalls Uhhhhhh

@ai6yr @ingalls we were JUST there 4 days ago at the visitors center and Nugget Falls... Is there a video/time lapse of the actual lake level increase?

The sand bar area at the front of Nugget Falls is barely above the waterline... Has to be flooded entirely now... I can't imagine what a 6 foot increase in lake level must look like.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/vvyykFyx3huhhKKbA

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@ai6yr @cantzler The NWS link in my original toot has a timelapse of the Suicide Basin lake dropping but I don’t know of one for Mendenhall Lake.
@ai6yr @ingalls actually have a shot of the small path to the sandbar, I guess at least the overlook area (red line) is probably about 12ft above the lake level when we were there, although I suspect parts of the actual trail would definitely be flooded (it's a very flat 1 mile trail)