What's in a Name? Frankenstorm vs. Sandy [1]
Weather.com - Doyle Rice, USA Today, 10/27/12
In this image taken by NOAA on Friday, Oct. 26, Hurricane Sandy is seen in the center bottom. When Sandy becomes a hybrid weather monster some call "Frankenstorm" it will smack the East Coast harder and wider than last year's damaging Irene, forecasters said Friday. AP Photo/NOAA
What do you get when you mix a huge hurricane with another big storm, add a full moon, and sprinkle in Halloween? Frankenstorm!
The name came, unexpectedly, from James Cisco, a forecaster with the typically staid federal government's Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (now there's a catchy name!) in College Park, Md.
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