William & Mary’s Batten School and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science have released its yearly “report cards” for sea-level rise, and the city of Norfolk is once again near the top of the class.
In 2024, Norfolk took the top spot for the East Coast, measuring 5.6 millimeters of sea-level rise in a year, or about a quarter of an inch. The city is fourth among all coastal communities in the study.
Yorktown took second place on the East Coast and had a rise rate of 5.41 millimeters in 2024, followed by Solomons Island, Maryland, at 5.21 millimeters in a year.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
