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Hurricane Sandy: Major Storm as Atmospheric Forces Combine | Reduction

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Hurricane Sandy: Major Storm as Atmospheric Forces Combine

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By rights, Hurricane Sandy ought never to have had a chance to form. Back in May, just before the 2012 hurricane season began, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration  said this was likely to be an average year, with perhaps nine to 15 named storms. Instead, there have been 19 — 10 of them hurricanes — and it is not over yet. In terms of numbers of storms, this will go down as the third busiest Atlantic hurricane season since record-keeping began in 1851, exceeded only by 2005 (the off-the-charts year of Katrina) and 1933. CLICK HERE: Hurricane Sandy: Live Storm Tracker So what happened? The original outlook by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center was about as accurate as it could have been at the time, all the way back last spring.

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Paul Knight

Overall Sentiment: -0.161313

Relevance: 0.389127

SentimentQuote
0“We had a busy start to the hurricane season — 13 named storms by the end of September, though only Isaac did anything to the U.S.,” said Paul Knight, ...
0“We had a busy start to the hurricane season — 13 named storms by the end of September, though only Isaac did anything to the U.S.,” said Paul Knight, a meteorologist at Penn State University. “After that there was a lull. Then the MJO began to act up.”
0“Had they not merged,” said Knight, ...
-0.226538“Had they not merged,” said Knight, “this would just have been a cold period.”
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 4
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.226538
  • Mean: -0.0566345
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Hugh Willoughby

Overall Sentiment: 0.16623

Relevance: 0.331381

SentimentQuote
0.387867“I think it’s pretty much chance,” said Hugh Willoughby, ...
0.163012“I think it’s pretty much chance,” said Hugh Willoughby, a veteran hurricane forecaster now at Florida International University. “There seems to be a tendency for the crosshairs to shift around, Gulf Coast for a few years, then peninsular Florida, then the Mid-Atlantic and New England. I’m not sure if this pattern is real or just the human tendency to see patterns in randomness.”
-0.0237577Willoughby quoted an old colleague, Jim Lushine, who said, “Hurricanes are like bananas; they come in bunches.”
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 3
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.5271213
  • Mean: 0.1757071
  • Standard Deviation: 0

El Nino

Overall Sentiment: 0.337189

Relevance: 0.330498

Isaac

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.258624

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Irene

Overall Sentiment: -0.626692

Relevance: 0.224866

Jim Lushine

Overall Sentiment: -0.0316097

Relevance: 0.220651

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Additional Info:

Country: United States

Overall Sentiment: -0.0855284

Relevance: 0.451074

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GeographicFeature: Pacific

Overall Sentiment: 0.221428

Relevance: 0.316322

NaturalDisaster: Hurricane Sandy

Overall Sentiment: -0.0942567

Relevance: 0.814933

NaturalDisaster: hurricane

Overall Sentiment: -0.142703

Relevance: 0.601993

Organization: National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration

Overall Sentiment: 0.298801

Relevance: 0.457968

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