Storm Surge

Real World Example

Imagine you're trying to carry a stack of papers across a room when someone suddenly opens a window, letting in a gust of wind. Just as the wind blows the papers out of your hands and scatters them across the room, a hurricane’s strong winds push massive amounts of water from the ocean onto the shore. In this analogy, the stack of papers represents the normally calm sea level, the gust of wind is like the hurricane’s forceful winds, and the scattered papers are akin to the elevated water levels of a storm surge crashing onto land.