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With the landfall comes a dreaded storm surge—a rise in water level generated by a storm—that scientists say could spread seawater up to 30 miles inland, an inundation the National Hurricane Center just called “unsurvivable.”The surge will be particularly dangerous along the coast, but it will remain a threat as the water moves inland. “This storm looks like it will be comparable as far as the levels of storm surge that we're seeing,” says Mike Chesterfield, a meteorologist at the Weather Channel.The size of a hurricane’s storm surge depends on a number of factors, “which makes the prediction of storm surge difficult until close to landfall,” writes Katie Peek, a coastal research scientist at Western Carolina University, in an email to WIRED. “In the case of Laura, the storm is moving through warm, shallow waters and projected to make landfall near an embayment (the shoreline is concave like a bowl) which can cause the waters to further ‘pile up’ along the shore.”And it isn’t just the fact that the hurricane’s winds are pushing water horizontally onto shore—the storm actually lifts the water vertically. “The oceans are already higher to start with, and then you put a stronger storm on top of that ocean, you're gonna end up with storm surges that reach further inland and impact more and more property,” says Chesterfield.For the latest information on Hurricane Laura, check out NOAA’s web page here.
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