Reasons why this storm was so impactful (had nothing to do with climate change):
1 - Came into the coast from west to east...allowed for maximum tidal surge
2 - Tropical cyclone phased with Tropical jet stream
3 - During the lows transformation to extra tropcal, it merged with a low level low riding up a cold front, allowing for the low to phase with the polar jet stream
4 - As the low became extra tropical, it's wind fields spread out....and the low became larger...
The storm stretched from Greenland to Illinois to the Caribbean....almost 20% of the lower 48 was covered....simply incredible.....phases (connected with) both the tropical and polar jet streams (notice the northern clouds stretching from Greenland and wrapping into the storm and the to the south, the clouds wrapping in from Florida and points south )....the jet streams are the conveyors of energy from the northern and southern latitudes....when they collide all hell breaks loose.....the main reason for Sandy being so large and powerful.....
