Sandy

[Jonathan Lighter]

As in CNN, as of last night.

JL

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Alice Faber <faber at haskins.yale.edu> wrote:

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