Sandy

[Alice Faber]

Actually, the Wunderground tracking page (which I spent much of
yesterday obsessively refreshing) is now referring to it as a
"post-tropical cyclone".

On 10/30/12 3:51 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
> The irony is that, since it is no longer tropical, it is now called a
> "tropical storm".
>
> VS-)
>
> On 10/29/2012 7:03 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>> …is no longer a hurricane, because hurricanes are by definition
>> tropical, and this hybrid storm is now--according to an authority on
>> CNN--"colder than it is warmer".
>>
>> LH
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