‘Sunny day’ high tide floods are on the rise along U.S. coasts
By 2050, sea level rise could make such flooding a new normal, a NOAA report warns
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UNDER WATER Seawater inundates a street in Miami Beach on June 27, 2018, at high tide. A new NOAA report suggests that by 2019 the southeastern United States will experience a 190 percent increase in the number of days with high tide floods relative to 2000.
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