How often do Hurricanes hit LI?

[peconic117]

Originally Posted by Jdawg8181

It’s crazy how much damage Sandy caused for not even being a cat one. If we had anything over a cat one here, I think we would be pretty screwed.

Sandy was not a typical tropical storm though

[S.I.B.]

Originally Posted by Jdawg8181

It’s crazy how much damage Sandy caused for not even being a cat one. If we had anything over a cat one here, I think we would be pretty screwed.

cat 1, cat 2 etc. refers to wind speed. It wasn't the wind that made Sandy so destructive.

[LINative]

Originally Posted by Jdawg8181

It’s crazy how much damage Sandy caused for not even being a cat one. If we had anything over a cat one here, I think we would be pretty screwed.

Well it was a Category 3 hurricane at one point but weakened as it approached the NYNJ area.

What made Sandy so destructive was first, it was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record in area (over 1,000 miles wide of tropical winds) which means its winds were pushing a huge amount of water. And second, it turned toward the Jersey Shore/ NY Bight (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Bight ) which is like a giant funnel and made all that water stack up with no place to go but to flood the shorelines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurric...ogical_history (see maps)

[peconic117]

Originally Posted by LINative

Well it was a Category 3 hurricane at one point but weakened as it approached the NYNJ area.

What made Sandy so destructive was first, it was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record in area (over 1,000 miles wide of tropical winds) which means its winds were pushing a huge amount of water. And second, it turned toward the Jersey Shore/ NY Bight (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Bight ) which is like a giant funnel and made all that water stack up with no place to go but to flood the shorelines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurric...ogical_history (see maps)

Yep hence why it was nicknamed “super storm” a once in a century type of storm