storm tide
storm tide · storm tides
A rise in local sea level caused by the combination of regular tides and a storm surgeA rise in local sea level caused by the combination of regular tides and a storm surge.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)A rise in local sea level caused by the combination of regular tides and a storm surge.
All About Camille -- the Great Storm, Dan Ellis, 2000 →ISBN The advancing storm surge combines with the normal astronomical tide to create the storm tide.
Extreme events: a physical reconstruction and risk assessment, Jonathan Nott 2006 →ISBN Randomly selected cyclones are then run through a numerical storm tide model.
Origin
From storm + tide.From storm + tide.
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Forms
plural: storm tidesSynonyms
1 synonymsWord family
1 related wordsRelatedstorm surge
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable