Storm & Security

SANDY RETIRED; ANDREA FIRST UP FOR 2013 There might never be another storm like Sandy, but certainly there will never be another storm named Sandy. The name has been retired from the official list of Atlantic Basin tropical cyclone names by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) because of its extreme impact on Jamaica, Cuba and the Mid-Atlantic United States in October 2012. Usually, storm names are reused every six years. But if a storm is so deadly or costly that future use of the name would be insensitive or confusing, the WMO may retire its name. Sandy is the 77th name to be retired from the Atlantic list since 1954. It has been replaced by Sara beginning in 2018. Sandy was a classic late-season hurricane in the southwestern Caribbean Sea. The cyclone made landfall as a category 1 hurricane in Jamaica, and as a 115-mph category 3 hurricane in eastern Cuba. Hurricane Sandy merged with a frontal system hours before making landfall as a post-tropical cyclone near Brigantine, NJ, and its size and strength caused catastrophic damage all along the mid-Atlantic shoreline. Because of its tremendous size, Sandy drove a catastrophic storm surge into the New Jersey and New York coastlines. Preliminary U.S. damage estimates are near $50 2013 Hurricane Names Andrea Barry Chantal Dorian Erin Fernand Gabrielle Humberto Ingrid Jerry Karen Lorenzo Melissa Nestor Olga Pablo Rebekah Sebastien Tanya Van Wendy billion, making Sandy the second-costliest cyclone since Katrina to hit the United States, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). There were at least 147 direct deaths recorded across the Atlantic basin due to Sandy, with 72 of these fatalities occurring in the mid-Atlantic and northeastern United States. Sandy caused the greatest number of U.S. direct fatalities related to a tropical cyclone outside of the southern states since Hurricane Agnes in 1972 2013 ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON FORECAST AVG1 AW2 Named Storms 12 16 Hurricanes 7 8 Major Hurricanes 3 4 WC3 WRC4 16 9‐12 9 6 5 ‐ NOAA5 13 – 20 7 – 11 3–6 CSU6 18 9 4 1 2 3 4 5 Long-term Average, 1950 to 2012 AccuWeather.com, released May 19, 2013 The Weather Channel, released April 8, 2013 Weather Research Center, released April 5, 2013 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, forecast numbers represent a 70 percent likelihood, released May 23, 2013 6 Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science, released April 10, 2013 Above Photo: Using its Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), this NOAA/NASA satellite image of Sandy on October 29, 2012, provided forecasters with more information about the storm's cloud structure. FORECAST 2013 / STORM & SECuRITY PROTECTION 11

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