NOR'EASTERS are "cold core" storms caused by cold continental air colliding with moist air over the Gulf Stream. Cold can be very dangerous! NOR'EASTERS have aroused fears for centuries in the northeast USA Examples of deadly NOR'EASTERS: 1950 — Great Appalachian Storm left 353 people dead. Hurricane-force winds, 30 inches of snow , and flooding. 1962 — Ash Wednesday Storm flooded towns two miles inland, destroying thousands of homes, hotels, and boardwalks. 1978 — Northeastern Blizzard of ’78 Killed 100 people, Boston and Providence set snowfall records while coastal flooding and wind compounded the snow. Sandy was damaging but was not a hurricane when it flooded the NY -NJ region. It too was an extratropical cold core storm that was forced inland by a high pressure system anchored near Greenland. Similar to a Nor'easter, but Sandy started initially as a weak category 1 & 2 hurricane around Jamaica before becoming a cold core storm

This should remind you of Sandy. Sandy was not a hurricane that drove storm surge around NY-NJ, but an extratropical storm similar to a Noreaster. Hurricanes are "warm core storms" pulling their energy from warm ocean surfcae water. A NOR'EASTERS is an extratropical storms that is a "cold core" storm caused by cold continental air colliding with warmer moist air over the Gulf Stream. Cold can be very dangerous! NOR'EASTERS have aroused fears for centuries in the northeast USA Examples of deadly NOR'EASTERS: 1950 — Great Appalachian Storm left 353 people dead. Hurricane-force winds, 30 inches of snow , and flooding. 1962 — Ash Wednesday Storm flooded towns two miles inland, destroying thousands of homes, hotels, and boardwalks. 1978 — Northeastern Blizzard of ’78 Killed 100 people, Boston and Providence set snowfall records while coastal flooding and wind compounded the snow. Only climitards believe Noreasters are caused by global warming!