sunny-day flooding
English
Noun
sunny-day flooding (uncountable)
- Flooding that is caused by something other than rain, such as a tidal wave or the failure of a dam.
- 2020 April, Elizabeth Kolbert, “Why we won't avoid a climate catastrophe”, in National Geographic:
- Increasingly, low-lying coastal cities in the United States are experiencing what’s known as sunny-day flooding, when all it takes is a high tide to send water gushing into the streets.
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