“Rising sea, stronger storms hammering West Coast shorelines” a report by Monica Spain on KPLU about a news study by the U.S. Geological Survey on winter storms on the Pacific Coast. “Sea level is rising and also, in parallel to that, larger and more frequent storms – that combined with the higher sea levels – is likely to result in a series of winters that are going to have quite extreme erosion,” says Patrick Barnard of the USGS.
http://www.kplu.org/post/rising-sea-stronger-storms-hammering-west-coast-shorelines