storm surge

English

Noun

storm surge (plural storm surges)

1. An unusual rise in sea level on a coast due to the action of high winds.
   • 1965, N. Arthur Pore, “Chesapeake Bay Extratropical Storm Surges”, in Chesapeake Science, volume 6, number 3, page 172:

     The storm surge is defined as the difference between the observed tide and the predicted astronomical tide and is considered to be the meteorological effect on sea level.

Translations

unusual rise in sea level

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: maror ciclònica f
• Cebuano: sultaob
• Dutch: stormvloed (nl) m
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: stormflóð f, stormalda f
• Finnish: myrskyvuoksi (fi)
• French: onde de tempête (fr) f
• German: Sturmflut (de) f
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: נד סופה m (ned sufá)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: vihardagály (hu)
• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: mareggiata (it) f, fortunale (it) m, tempesta di mare f, burrasca (it) f
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: pusuan ribut, luruan ribut
• Maori: tai reporepo
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stormflo m or f

  Nynorsk: stormflod f

• Persian: خیزاب (fa) (xizâb)
• Portuguese: maré de tempestade f, maré ciclônica f
• Russian: штормово́й наго́н m (štormovój nagón), штормово́й прили́в m (štormovój prilív)
• Spanish: marejada ciclónica f
• Swedish: stormflod (sv) c
• Tagalog: daluyong
• Welsh: mordwy m, merwerydd m

See also

• storm tide