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

Compare that to the total death tolls from recent U.S. storms since Sandy that also claimed over ... heaviest rain and highest storm surge. Helene was America's seventh costliest hurricane on record, ...

The hurricane's storm surge, which was over 15 feet high ... as it paved the way for a more resilient future. Hurricane Sandy ...

With an estimated $70.2 billion in damage, Sandy is the third costliest natural disaster in US history (it was second until being overtaken by Hurricane Harvey in August). The storm was ...

By the time Hurricane Sandy veered toward the Northeast ... By the end of the century a hundred-year storm surge like Sandy’s might occur every decade or less. Using a conservative prediction ...

A week away from the six-month anniversary of Hurricane Helene, the National Hurricane Center has released its report on the ...

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.

Compare that to the total death tolls from recent U.S. storms since Sandy that also ... heaviest rain and highest storm surge. Helene was America's seventh costliest hurricane on record, according ...