storm surge

After Hurricane Sandy, the NWS concluded that it should use similarly evocative language for storm-surge warnings.

Among the conclusions: the NOAA needs more than one storm-surge modeler and a better social media strategy.

Mantoloking and Seaside Heights took the worst pummeling by Sandy's storm surge.

The storm surge had no sooner receded than volunteers and donations began to pour in from seemingly everywhere.

It will need, like much of New York, defenses against rising tides and apparently increased storm surge.