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The ocean's way of billing the coastline for climate change, in advance.
means The abnormal rise in sea level that a storm pushes ashore, on top of the normal tide, as winds and low pressure shove a dome of water onto land.
from A plain-spoken compound, not a borrowed or coined word: 'storm' from Old English 'storm' (related to Old Norse and German words for violent weather, all possibly tracing back to a root meaning 'to stir or disturb'), and 'surge' from Latin 'surgere' — 'to rise, to spring up.' Mariners used 'surge' for centuries to describe a swelling of water; meteorologists only paired it with 'storm' as a technical term once scientists could actually measure how far a hurricane's winds and pressure drop could pile water onto a coast — so the phrase itself is younger than you'd guess, even though both halves are ancient.
- not the wave
- it is the sea literally rising, not waves on top
- deadliest part
- causes more hurricane deaths than wind does
- katrina height
- reached over 25 feet in mississippi
- the cause
- low pressure plus wind pushing water toward shore