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Will U.S. Hurricane Forecasting Models Catch Up to Europes?
2013-10-27 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: If there was a bright spot amid Hurricane Sandy's massive devastation, including 148 deaths, at least $68 billion in damages, and the destruction of thousands of homes, it was the accuracy of the forecasts predicting where the storm would go. Six days before Sandy came ashore one year ago this week-while the storm was still building in the Bahamas-forecasters predicted it would make landfall somewhere between New Jersey and New York City on October 29. They were right. Sandy, which had by...
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