The storm is expected to bring “unsurvivable” storm surge of up to 20 feet to the Big Bend area, according to the National Weather Service in Tallahassee, which called it a “nightmare surge ...

A storm surge is water that is pushed onto shore by a hurricane. It is rarely a "wall of water" as often claimed, but rather a rise of water that can be as rapid as several feet in just a few minutes.

Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre details the federal emergency efforts as Hurricane Helene is set to make landfall as a Category 3 with an "unsurvivable" 20-foot storm surge.

A research team led by Prof. Mao Miaohua at the Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...

Extreme weather and disaster scientist Hal Needham, founder of the U.S. Storm Surge Database, U-SURGE, discusses how the ...

Kala Hunter The high water tide from the ocean that inundates the land during hurricanes, colloquially known as storm surge, is the leading cause of deaths from hurricanes. Scientists in Georgia ...