“Hurricane” Sandy? What a joke. It was barely above a tropical storm, a low grade cat 1 hurricane.
It’s only claim to fame is it stayed off shore but close enough to do damage to the East coast, then came ashore in the most populated area of the East, New Jersey and NYC at a very high tide, followed by a storm from the north.
And all the chilluns yelled...”Proof of glo-bull warming!”
That’s not quite right.
You are completely right that Hurricane Sandy had diminished to a minor tropical storm - however, it then ran into a cold front and developed into a huge, and hugely-powerful non-hurricane. Its’ major effects reached into Illinois.
It was really huge.
http://www.sciencebuzz.org/blog/storm-sandy-makes-her-presence-felt
You are right of course, that this had nothing to do with global warming, as it wasn’t abnormally warm at any point along its path, and it only became a monster when it ran into a *cold* front. Hurricanes gain effect from differentials, anyways, not absolute temperature, along with a specific balance of wind-shear.
If wind shear is to little, they don’t spin up. If it is too much, it disrupts the hurricane.
The same argument would apply for Florence, “barely above a tropical storm” and then only for a few hours. However there as in the Carolinas, high water is a very major factor as it was in Houston. PR on the other hand had very strong Cat. 4 and 3 winds.
Actually if the Democrats were smart they would use these elevated death statistics from Sandy to show how dangerous “global warming” is becoming and also collect them for Houston and the Carolinas. It appears that extreme rain conditions are definitely on the rise, whether from rising CO2, minimal sunspots, or other causes, to be determined. Is it wise for the Trump administration to weaken building standards in flood zones so that our insurance rates keep rising as houses built and often flood insured keep being destroyed and paid for by our taxes or insurance companies?
A big problem with the PR statistics is that so far there is no indication of exact causes of death after the immediate storm: loss of Insulin (how many weeks without refrigeration or supplies, presumably worse than NJ, TX, or NC and SC), heart attack or inability to get heart medication (for how many weeks in each place), death from initial injuries or subsequent accidents for failure of medical supplies (how many weeks in each place), etc. etc.