What caused the North Sea flood in 1953

The combination of wind, high tide, and low pressure caused the sea to flood land up to 5.6 metres (18 ft 4 in) above mean sea level. Realising that such ...

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The 1953 North Sea flood was caused by a storm surge, coinciding with high tides, flooding England, Netherlands, and Belgium, with 307 deaths in England and 1, ...

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The disaster of 1953 was caused by a coming together of three events. Storm-force northerly winds coincided with an exceptionally high spring ...

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On the night of 31 January and 1 February 1953, a deep area of low pressure moving south down the North Sea coincided with a high spring tide.

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The 1953 flood began with a storm and high tide, causing dike breaches, reaching 455cm above sea level, with a second flood, and 873 victims in Zeeland.

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It was the night of a spring tide, a deep atmospheric low pressure over the North Sea had been raising water levels, and northerly gales were driving water ...1 page

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On the night of 31st January 1953, the combination of a high spring tide and a storm over the North Sea caused a devastating surge of water to sweep across the ...

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by K d’Angremond · Cited by 19 — On 1st February 1953, the coastlines of the southern. North Sea were hit by a severe storm surge. Large parts of the United Kingdom, Belgium and the.9 pages

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by A Duiveman · 2025 — The 1953 North Sea Flood was not caused by global warming. Yet, Dutch media often refer to this disaster when discussing climate change [2,3].

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