Meaning of storm tide | Babel Free

Definitions

A rise in local sea level caused by the combination of regular tides and a storm surge.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“At 8pm of the 27th there was 1.0 ft of storm tide at both Pensacola and Port Eads.”

“South Florida and Louisiana, August 23-26, 1992: Natural Disaster Survey -- Jennifer J. Wilson, James P. Travers, 1997 →ISBN Storm surge is water height above normal tide level. Storm tide is the water height relative to NGVD, the mean sea level of 1929.”

“All About Camille -- the Great Storm, Dan Ellis, 2000 →ISBN The advancing storm surge combines with the normal astronomical tide to create the storm tide.”

“Extreme events: a physical reconstruction and risk assessment, Jonathan Nott 2006 →ISBN Randomly selected cyclones are then run through a numerical storm tide model.”

CEFR level