Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

storm tide

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.95 in modern English

Syllables: stor-m tide
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A rise in local sea level caused by the combination of regular tides and a storm surge.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"At 8pm of the 27th there was 1.0 ft of storm tide at both Pensacola and Port Eads."
"South Florida and Louisiana, August 23-26, 1992: Natural Disaster Survey -- Jennifer J. Wilson, James P. Travers, 1997 →ISBN Storm surge is water height above normal tide level. Storm tide is the water height relative to NGVD, the mean sea level of 1929."
"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."

Etymology

From storm + tide.

Usage

Inflected Forms

storm tides (plural) stormtide (alternative)

Phrases

storm surge

Frequently Paired Words

storm surge

Synonyms

hurricane tide

Questions

What does storm tide mean?: A rise in local sea level caused by the combination of regular tides and a storm surge.
Where does storm tide come from?: From storm + tide.

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