Sentences with phrase «more tidal flooding»

With tides and storms riding in on higher seas, there will be more tidal flooding and larger storm surges.

Also, a minimum of 180 floods yearly, or about 15 floods monthly, would beset 17 towns, and nine towns would experience 240 times or even more tidal flooding yearly.

All up and down the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts, climate change driven sea level rise and a weakening Gulf Stream are combining with other natural factors that can seriously amplify an ever - worsening trend toward more tidal flooding.

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In 1953 more than 300 people died when large parts of Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Kent flooded after a 3.2 m tidal surge.

In many coastal cities, tidal flooding is recurring much more frequently today than only a few years ago, because of the small but inexorable year - by - year rise in sea levels, and the rate of recurrence is accelerating (Sweet and Park 2014).