sunny-day flooding

English

Noun

sunny-day flooding (uncountable)

1. 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[1]”, 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.