Obviously with Hurricane Ida coming it’s all over the news. They’re saying storm surges could be several feet. I understand if it breaks a dam or a levy how the water can get that high. But how can a Hurricane bring so much water inland?
In: Earth Science
The atmosphere presses down on everything, we constantly have high and low pressure areas, weather casters talk about all the time. Think of a water bed, if you press down the area around rises a little. a hurricane is an enourmous low pressure system, so the water rises as much as if you took a toilet plunger to pull up on that section of water bed. and then you have wind pushing waves higher, the timing of the tides…and a couple FEET of rain water.
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