Even though Sandy was no longer a hurricane at landfall, the storm crashed ashore with unrelenting fury. A storm surge of up to 10 feet poured inland from Long Island Sound, flooding neighborhoods ...

Any New Yorker or New Jerseyean remembers all too well the deadly storm surge triggered by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The storm came ashore in late October of that year with hurricane-force winds ...

Hurricane Sandy's most devastating effects are likely to be caused by its storm surge, a mound of water piled up and pushed ahead by the storm's winds. Most hurricanes approach the U.S. East Coast ...

In addition to being the deadliest threat, storm surge is also typically the most destructive part of a hurricane. In Hurricane Sandy in 2012, storm surge-induced flooding measured as high as nine ...

Experts are predicting that the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season will be “above-normal,” as Connecticut scientists issue ...

A blizzard that hit the East Coast in January 2016 produced a storm surge in Cape May, New Jersey, that was slightly higher than the one recorded there during Hurricane Sandy a few years earlier.

The 2025 hurricane season officially begins on June 1, and it's forecast to be more active than ever, with potentially ...

Storm surge is one of the deadliest impacts of hurricanes. Find out what it looks like, who’s most at risk and the plan to ...