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To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (38149)	2/16/2013 10:55:38 AM
From: Wharf Rat	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 86356

Maybe he doesn't know what he's talking about. Maybe he's looking at the wrong metrics. Maybe both. Maybe he thinks hurricanes only happen at US landfall, and if they hit China or the Philippines or the Mexico's Pacific Coast, or nothibng but fish, they don;t exist. Maybe all 3. The only question is "HTF does he get idiots to fall for his shit?" The hurricane-turned-cyclone can claim several historical titles. Sandy's strength, as indicated by barometric pressure just before landfall, set a record. The lower the pressure, the stronger the storm. When hurricane hunter aircraft measured its central pressure at 940 millibars -- 27.76 inches -- Monday afternoon, it was the lowest barometric reading ever recorded for an Atlantic storm to make landfall north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The previous record holder was the 1938 "Long Island Express" Hurricane, which dropped as low as 946 millibars. Sandy's strength and angle of approach combined to produce a record storm surge of water into New York City. The surge level at Battery Park topped 13.88 feet at 9:24 p.m. Monday, surpassing the 10.02 feet record water level set by Hurricane Donna in 1960. Sandy's impact: State by state New York Harbor's surf also reached a record level when a buoy measured a 32.5-foot wave Monday. That wave was 6.5 feet taller than a 25-foot wave churned up by Hurricane Irene in 2011. As Sandy approached the Northeast, forecasters were fond of pointing out that if the hurricane were a country, the area it covered would make it the 20th largest in the world -- roughly twice the size of Texas. But with tropical-force winds reaching out 580 miles, Sandy still was just the second-largest Atlantic storm on record. Hurricane Olga, another late-in-the-year storm, set the record in 2001, with tropical-force winds extending 600 miles, according to the National Hurricane Center cnn.com "The IPCC doesn't seem to have picked up on that as yet." Key messages of SREX are as follows: 1. Even without taking climate change into account, disaster risk will continue to increase in many countries as more vulnerable people and assets are exposed to weather extremes. 2. Evidence suggests that climate change has changed the magnitude and frequency of some extreme weather and climate events (‘climate extremes’) in some regions already. cdkn.org steroids