{"id":8890,"date":"2016-10-29T11:21:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T15:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8890"},"modified":"2016-10-29T11:21:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T15:21:14","slug":"anniversary-of-hurricane-sandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/10\/anniversary-of-hurricane-sandy\/","title":{"rendered":"Anniversary of Hurricane Sandy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four years ago today, post-hurricane Sandy made landfall on the New Jersey coast. \u00a0Sandy 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. \u00a0It 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). \u00a0An estimated 147 people died from Sandy and it was a huge weather disaster for the Northeast US. \u00a0But Sandy also brought heavy rain and snow to more inland areas as the warm tropical air met cold Arctic air farther inland.<\/p>\n

You can read the complete report on Sandy at\u00a0https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/data\/tcr\/AL182012_Sandy.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Four years ago today, post-hurricane Sandy made landfall on the New Jersey coast. \u00a0Sandy 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":8891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8892,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890\/revisions\/8892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}