A note from Michael Ferragamo....
“Quite a bit of confusion about why SANDY 2012 isn’t on this list. Sandy was officially classified as extratropical a few hours before striking NJ, thus was not a hurricane at landfall.
Yes, it still had 80 mph winds, however it was no longer a fully tropical hurricane.”
Thanks, I was wondering that. The presence of only a single strike between North Carolina and New York highlights just how unique Sandy was. Because of the distortion of projecting the US onto a flat surface, it’s hard to realize that there is a huge bight on the coast of Eastern U.S., where the shoreline turns north, away from the open seas, at the Southern tip of Virginia, and turns back out towards the open seas from New York to Nova Scotia.