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Early Worries That Hurricane Sandy Could Be a ‘Perfect Storm’
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/us/early-worries-that-hurricane-sandy-may-be-a-perfect-storm.html?_r=0By JOHN SCHWARTZ
Published: October 25, 2012
Hurricane Sandy, which on Thursday was barreling through the Bahamas as a Category 2 storm, may be taking aim at the northeastern United States and could make landfall along the Atlantic coast early next week. If so, forecasters say, the storm could become, to use a technical term from meteorology, a whopper.
“It really could be an extremely significant, historic storm,” said Brian McNoldy, a senior research associate at the University of Miami, explaining that conditions are similar to those that created the famous “perfect storm” of 1991.
