Four years ago today, post-hurricane Sandy made landfall on the New Jersey coast. Sandy started out as a classical late-season hurricane starting in the southwestern Caribbean Sea and crossed the eastern end of Cuba before taking a path east of the Bahamas which paralleled the East Coast of the US before taking an unusual but well-forecast (at least by some models) left hook into New Jersey. It transitioned from a hurricane to a post-tropical storm shortly before it made landfall, which affected the clarity of warnings around New York and New Jersey and caused a lot of confusion there with both the general public and emergency managers). An estimated 147 people died from Sandy and it was a huge weather disaster for the Northeast US. But Sandy also brought heavy rain and snow to more inland areas as the warm tropical air met cold Arctic air farther inland.
You can read the complete report on Sandy at https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL182012_Sandy.pdf.
