Sentences with phrase «lower storm tide»

The difference between low tide and high tide is about 2.5 feet, so Irma will drive a significantly lower storm tide to the coast if it hits at low tide.

Not exact matches

Emergency workers were counting on the cyclone coming ashore close to a low tide, mitigating the force of a storm surge.

Adventurers often turn up at low tide to explore some of the hidden islands off the coast which are only accessible at low tide and they also come out during storms to watch some immensely powerful gales and waves crash upon the shore.

The inter-tidal zones are subjected to sprays of waves during high tides, storms and extreme temperatures which make survival of many organisms very low.

In general, the regions of expanding warming upwelling water in the Indian Ocean, North Pacific, or wherever they are, must create slight bulges in the surface, and the regions of shrinking, cooling, sinking water in the Arctic must create slight depressions in the sea surface (again, I mean in a very low pass sense — obviously storms, tides, etc, create all kinds of short - terms signals obscuring this).

I'm imagining a late season hurricane's 16 - foot storm surge combined with a full moon high tide / low tide cycle destabilizing the methane clathrates offshore of New Jersey, lightning setting the gas afire, and a storm moving inland pouring boiling water and boullabaise on the refineries....

I made a lifetime friend there one day at low tide in a brief hail storm, a gal who was making the crossing on the southwest coast path.

Huge waves have battered the coastline where storm surges created by a series of deep low pressure systems and strong winds blowing over thousands of kilometres combined with high tides.

A storm surge, storm flood or storm tide is a coastal flood or tsunami - like phenomenon of rising water commonly associated with low pressure weather systems (such as tropical cyclones and strong extratropical cyclones), the severity of which is affected by the shallowness and orientation of the water body relative to storm path, as well as the timing of tides.

One that may buttress much of lower Manhattan behind a U shaped wall meant to deflect both rising tides and worsening storms.

Much of the impacts we presently see are due to salt water invasion of low lying regions, nuisance flooding events, the amplification of storm driven tides, and increasing instances of what are now called king and emperor tides.

This photo taken on March 3, 2014 shows residents looking at debris washed up and dumped across low - lying Majuro Atoll in the aftermath of a king tide energized by a storm surge.

However the interesting thing about the 1821 storm is that it came barreling through at dead low tide.

Given a geological sea - level marker it is usually difficult to know if it corresponds to mean sea - level, high tide, low tide, spring tide, winter tide, is it a storm feature, the result of a tsunami, was the tidal range the same.

For example, Hurricane Sandy brought a record storm tide to New York City in October 2013, flooding more areas than otherwise would have been inundated, since the sea level in lower Manhattan had climbed by about a foot during the 20th century.

A broad low pressure system that slammed the mid-Atlantic and Northeastern U.S. this weekend with flooding, massive waves, and wind gusts of up to 93 mph was still hurling rough seas and storm tides at the U.S. East Coast on Monday.