/johnny
The contention earlier on the thread is that Sandy was over blown and did not deserve the label of superstorm, something we heard a LOT of during and just after the storm hit.
A lot of people were poo-pooing it, saying it was just media hype, etc.
It was a big storm, both in actual physical size, and the large area of destruction and the magnitude of it. It was not media hype.
No, nobody is saying that there weren’t bigger storms or ones that may have cause similar damage, but Sandy sure ranked right up there with the worst of the worst and it was big enough in physical size to be labeled as a super storm
As for the predictions, the American computer models did not predict the storm track it took, although they should have. It was an European computer model which got it right.
Additionally, I watched the radar map during this whole scenario and the storm that came out of the midwest which sucked Sandy into it, actually backed up back out to the west, and THAT IS unprecedented. We are in the prevailing southwesterlies and storm systems ALWAYS head in an easterly direction. They just don’t go east to west. That was a very unusual scenario.