tidal flooding
Moon-driven ocean overflow
Tidal flooding occurs when ocean water pushed by tides, often combined with storm surge or high winds, overwhelms coastal defenses and inundates normally dry land.
Unlike flooding from rainfall, it comes from the sea.
Coastal communities increasingly experience sunny day flooding—tidal flooding during exceptionally high tides even without storms: The parking lot floods during king tides now.
- spring tideExtreme tidal fluctuation
- sea level riseIncreasing ocean surface height
- seawallsCoastal flood barriers
- property damageHarm to possessions
- insurance claimsDemands for policy compensation
king tides · climate change · seasonal variations · flooded streets · zoning regulations · coastal communities · coastal erosion · surge · rising waters · high water mark · hurricanes · sandbags · habitat loss · overflow · waterlogged · shoreline · early warning systems · evacuation routes
- floodsdeluge, flash floods, spring floods, coastal floods, floodwater
- coastal weatherdrizzle, overcast, ocean breeze, cloudy skies, rainfall
- coastal floodingsea level rise, storm surge, king tide, king tides, high tide
- coastal managementcoastal erosion, coastal wetlands, sea level rise, seawalls, breakwaters
- Tidal Wetlandssalt marshes, cordgrass, mudflat, marsh grass, marsh grasses
- tideshigh tide, low tide, ebb tide, tides, neap tide
tidal floodinglow tide
Sea at minimum level
ebb tide · drought · dry land · neap tide · desiccation
tidal floodingdrought
Prolonged water scarcity
water scarcity · dry spell · storm surge · flash flooding · river flooding