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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

By analyzing data from the past 70 years, scientists discovered trends related to changing storm surge levels. The Southeast ...

The costliest hurricane to impact the U.S. was Hurricane Katrina (2005), which caused an estimated $201.3 billion in damage.

The event, called a reverse storm surge, also occurred during Hurricane Ian in 2022 and Hurricane ... exposing a bare sandy shoreline where water usually sits. But officials are warning residents ...

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 ...