How snowstorms can trigger more dangerous flooding in New Jersey

RAMBO TALABONG / INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS – New Jersey is among the states hit hardest by the blizzard that battered the Northeast Sunday and Monday, with two feet of snow or more and extremely high winds, causing flooding in coastal Atlantic City and other towns.

But as Rutgers climate scientist Anthony Broccoli explains, storms like this are not only inland snow events. In New Jersey, nor’easters can also push water onshore and trigger coastal flooding, a risk often associated more with hurricanes than winter storms …