Blinhart wrote:kevin wrote:Blinhart wrote:
Why isn't Superstorm Sandy on this list, because it was considered non-tropical at landfall?
Yes I think so as well as the fact that Sandy made landfall near Brigantine, New Jersey. Of course it still caused massive damage to NYC, but because of that it doesn't officially count as a NYC landfall.
I've been to the areas around NYC, I really feel anything within 25-50 miles of NYC (center point) should be considered part of NYC, it doesn't matter if it is in NY, NJ, Connecticut, most people around there either work in NYC or go to NYC on a regular basis and most people like me consider them as part of NYC. I know most census and political regulations would consider part of the Metropolis of NYC. I know this is off topic, but I think weather publications and other publications need to consider the Metropolis of a city as part of their history. Look at Katrina, most people look at New Orleans as all the area south of Lake Pontchartrain, but in reality there are many towns that are part of the Metropolis of New Orleans there.
Yes agreed, it's just that the source I used for the list of NYC data probably only included precise NYC landfalls even though, as you mention, NYC is so big that a larger area might need to be taken into account. Either way it wouldn't be included since Sandy was extratropical. I did my own search now using the historical database with a 25 mile radius around NYC and then I get a total of 26 landfalls. However, still only 3 of them were at hurricane strength: the 1893 one, Belle in 1976 and Gloria in 1985.
I tried to eye ball it from my phone, pulled up the computer was gonna edit closer to 150mi, but yess quite a shift. That's a type of shift you see over 3 different model runs when something is 96 hours out