Climate Central: As Hurricane Sandy comes ashore and grinds its way inland, the hurricane's storm surge -- the pulse of seawater pushed ashore by Sandy's winds and low atmospheric pressure -- will almost certainly cause more concentrated damage than the hurricane's powerful surface winds, torrential rains and mountain snows. Those other factors will be bad enough, especially since Sandy's landfall in New Jersey -- the nation's most densely populated state, located smack in the middle of its most densely populated...
URL: http://www.climatecentral.org/news/hurricane-sandys-storm-surge-explained-and-why-it-matters-15182
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