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Monday, October 29, 2012

U.S. prepares for massive storm l New York 'close' to the arrival of Hurricane 'Sandy'


Sandy category 1 strengthens and its center moves on the Atlantic coast of the U.S.for Monday night, confirmed the National Hurricane Center. The storm had maximum sustained winds of about 140 kilometers per hour and is located at 615 kilometers southeast of the City of New York. It all begins with Sandy , a hurricane from the tropics usually progresses northward toward the East Coast of the United States . To this we must add a high pressure area centered around Greenland that blocks the normal path of the hurricane toward the sea and forces him to move westward toward land . Then you add a winter cold front coming from the west and the storm strikes. You will also mix air from the Arctic and adds a full moon and its usual effect of generating high tides . After we add huge waves generated by a hurricane big and strong winds . The subway, buses and trains are stopped. The Starbucks not open all day. United Nations, universities and colleges are closed. The Wall Street trading floor is empty and the Stock Exchange has suspended all contributions. Broadway has dropped the curtain on all his shows, including 'Annie'. And more than 375,000 people are forced to leave their homes in the streets of riskNew York and suffers its second hurricane in just over a year . The city is among the areas hardest hit by East Coast Sandy, estimated landfall in southern New Jersey on Monday afternoon. They are also in alertness Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and Washington . Some 50 million people live in the affected region. In Washington, the metro also closed on Monday and the government has closed all its offices. In Atlantic City, have closed all casinos and has ordered the evacuation of nearly 30,000 people. 1.2 million students will not go on Monday to their schools by the hurricane, according to CNN. The result is a monster weather expected unleashing its might on a stretch of 1,280 kilometers long, with predictions that in certain areas will drop 304 millimeters of rain , 60 inches of snow and winds of 65 to 80 kph. The storm is very dangerous and unusual because it occurs near the end of the hurricane season and the beginning of the winter storm season, "so take something to both: Hurricane part and part of a large-scale storm along the coast northeast U.S., a real problem, "he said Saturday Jeff Masters, director of the private weather service Weather UndergroundGiven expectations that Sandy will lose its tropical characteristics , NOAA has issued warnings for gales and warnings that do not correspond to hurricane or tropical storm for coastal areas north of North Carolina , due to which some have complained television meteorologists that weather reports are too confusing. Neither is a problem that affects only the coast. Craig Fugate of the Federal Emergency Management , told reporters on Saturday: "It is not just a coastal threat. covers a large area. The phenomenon penetrate enough in the territory , "he added. "The storm grows and returns to the coast on Monday and Tuesday," estimated Uccelini, which estimated that 60 million people will be affected in one way or another by the storm . "Your movement will extend from north central, the Ohio Valley, to the Carolinas to New England and southern Canada. Shall indeed expansive storm system".

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