Saturday, November 3, 2012

Did Climate Change Have A Role in Hurricane Sandy’s Unusual Track Into New Jersey?

ThinkProgress: We`re used to seeing hurricane-battered beaches and flooded cities in Florida, North Carolina, and the Gulf Coast. But to see these images from the Jersey Shore and New York City in the wake of Hurricane Sandy is a shocking experience. New Jersey only rarely gets hit by hurricanes because it lies in a portion of the coast that doesn`t stick out much, and is too far north. How did this happen? How was a hurricane able to move from southeast to northwest at landfall, so far north, and so late in hurricane...

URL: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/11/03/1125981/jeff-masters-why-did-hurricane-sandy-take-such-an-unusual-track-into-new-jersey/?mobile=nc
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