AS THE 18TH NAMED TROPICAL depression of 2012, Sandy was declared a tropical storm on October 22 in the southwestern Caribbean Sea (Fanelli et al. 2013). After reaching the Greater Antilles, the weather system continued traveling northeast over the Atlantic Ocean by mirroring the Eastern US Seaboard at a very disconcerting distance. Nonetheless, blame it on global warming or just to an unusual combination of climatological conditions that created "Superstorm Sandy," the path of the storm abruptly turned 90 degrees to the west toward the northeastern United States. In the late night hours of October 29, Sandy made a landfall as a posttropical cyclone near Brigantine, New Jersey, with hurricane-force winds of up to 80 mph (130 km/h).
展开▼
