Norfolk, Virginia: Call it nuisance flooding or high-tide flooding or sunny day flooding, but most of all call it more likely to happen

More coastal nuisance flooding forecast for coming months. (Virginian-Pilot, 9/10/2015)

Sweet examined data going back to 1920 in some cases and found that the flooding is increasing with climate change and rising seas, but "some of these areas you can get it with no rain at all - high-tide flooding." These "sunny day flooding" events are becoming more common.

Related reading:
Seas Are Rising at Fastest Rate in Last 28 Centuries.  (The New York Times, 2/22/2016)

Those emissions, primarily from the burning of fossil fuels, are causing the ocean to rise at the fastest rate since at least the founding of ancient Rome, the scientists said. They added that in the absence of human emissions, the ocean surface would be rising less rapidly and might even be falling. 

The increasingly routine tidal flooding is making life miserable in places like Miami Beach; Charleston, S.C.; and Norfolk, Va., even on sunny days.

Tidewater Virginia Republican has seen the light the water lapping at his boots.

As quoted in Interview:  Congressman Scott Rigell from Virginia.  (Mom's Clean Air Force, 4/3/2015)

Related post:
Sunny-day flooding in Miami Beach: The everyday reality and the political denial.  (5/9/2014)