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tropical storms are a fact of life in
the Caribbean but only about half
strengthen into
hurricanes hurricanes are systems that
are born in the tropics and they need to
have 26° C approximately 80° fenhe water
to get the systems going they actually
act as a heat engine they take the warm
water and Rise it up as water vapor and
as that water vapor condenses it
releases latent heat into the atmosphere
and that's where the wind energy is
coming from only one in 20 Atlantic
hurricanes ever strikes the East
Coast odds are that Sandy will do what
virtually all of these hurricanes do
head into the Gulf of Mexico like
Katrina or blow into the cold Atlantic
and fade harmlessly
away but then a startling prediction
from 4,000 miles away upends all
expectations a day even before Sandy has
been
named the supercomputers at a European
weather center predict that she will not
follow the normal course conventional
wisdom said that Sandy would move
towards the north because it was in the
Caribbean and then towards the Northeast
and then it would die and not affect
land but there were suggestions that the
hurricane might not behave in a normal
way and might actually end up over the
northeast of the
US worse than
that the model goes on to predict that
once Sandy reaches the
Northeast it will make a sudden
improbable left turn sending it straight
into the heart of the Jersey
Shore and New York
City