Climate Central: If Hurricane Sandy manages to make landfall on the East Coast of North America early next week, as the majority of the computer forecast models now have it, it probably won't be right to call it a hurricane any more. Or even a tropical storm, even if the winds are "tropical storm strength.' To some degree, it probably will be a hybrid storm that shares characteristics of two parents: Sandy, a tropical cyclone (the broader term including hurricanes and tropical storms); and an extratropical "trough,'...
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