Weather
Storm Surges
One of the most frightening elements of stormy weather in Beasts of Bermuda is the storm surge. The Ocean can creep up the beach, up the mountain, and even over the hills as it comes looking for victims during a particularly intense storm. The rising water level can pose significant threat to players in many different ways. First, being inundated by sea water will sharply drop the comfort level of any terrestrial creature. Rising water levels can also flush players out of caves and dens they may have taken refuge from, forcing them back out into the rain and further posting risk of death due to stress. These storm surges also set the stage for predatory aquatic creatures such as the Mosasaurus to take full advantage of the situation.
It takes a severe storm for a noticeable storm surge to take place. Surge accumulates as the integration of the square of the rain intensity over time, so the more intense and longer the storm, the higher the surge will climb. Surges decay over time as well. The surge will usually recede with the lightening of the storm, but some particularly extreme storm surges have outlasted the storms that brought them.
Storm surges will sometimes very rarely flood significant fractions of the map, posing a significant survival challenge for terrestrial creatures. Due to the method in which the weather generator was coded, any surge is theoretically possible, and surges beyond 30 meters have been seen in-game on very rare occasion.
