Hurricane Sandy

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ハリケーン「サンディ」は28日にカリブ海を北上して、アメリカ東海岸に向かっています。現在、東海岸の気候は特殊で、ハリケーンが「スーパーストーム」となり、1991年の「パーフェクトストーム」が再び発生する恐れがあるとして、東海岸の各州は対策に追われています。

　アメリカ国家ハリケーン研究センターは、29日にハリケーン「サンディ」が中東部海岸に向かい、沿岸地域では風雨や高潮となる可能性があると警戒を呼びかけています。

　直接上陸のほかもう1つの危険が懸念されています。現在、グリーンランドからの高気圧団が大西洋にあり、寒気団が北西から東海岸に向かっています。この気象条件にハリケーン「サンディ」が加われば巨大な嵐を生むシステムを形成する可能性があり、1991年のハロウィンに起きた「パーフェクトストーム」が再び発生する恐れがあるということです。

　これに備えて、米東海岸の各州ではハリケーン対応に全力を尽くしています。ニューヨーク州では市内の鉄道や公共交通機関が28日の午後7時から運行を停止し、小中学校も29日は休校となっています。また一部の低地に住む人々には避難命令が出ています。

　このほかに、ニュージャージー、デラウェア、コネティカットなどの州も沿岸の住民を避難させました。また米各航空会社は100便を超える国内便を欠航したほか、ニューヨークやワシントンへ発着する国際便も欠航となっています。

（http://japanese.cri.cn/881/2012/10/29/181s200045.htm）

Hurricane Sandy bore down on the East Coast early Monday, its front edge sending tide-enhanced surges over boardwalks from Delaware to New Jersey a full 12 hours before the eye of the enormous, 900-mile wide storm was to make landfall. Some 60 million people live in the path of the mega-storm and many likely face power outages in the coming hours and days.

The National Guard was deployed along the densely-populated Atlantic coast, and public transportation in New York, Philadelphia and Washington D.C., was suspended. Airports were expected to shut down by Monday afternoon as the weather system experts are calling "Frankenstorm" churned in from the sea. The hurricane is on a collision course with a winter storm and a cold front, and high tides from a full moon make it a rare hybrid storm that could be felt all the way to the Great Lakes.

"This is the worst-case scenario."

- Louis Uccellini, environmental prediction chief for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

"This is the worst-case scenario," said Louis Uccellini, environmental prediction chief for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Forecasters warned that the New York City region could face the worst of the hurricane. As of 5 a.m. Monday, the storm was centered about 385 miles southeast of New York City, moving to the north at 14 mph, with hurricane-force winds extending an incredible 175 miles from its center. The National Hurricane Center said early Monday the storm has intensified, with top sustained winds of 95 mph and higher gusts. Sandy has already been blamed for 65 deaths in the Caribbean before it began traveling northward, parallel to the Eastern Seaboard.

States of emergency were declared from North Carolina, where gusty winds whipped steady rain on Sunday, to Connecticut. Delaware ordered mandatory evacuations for coastal communities on Sunday, while Ocean City, Md. was also evacuated. 

Authorities warned that New York City could be hit with an 11-foot wall of water that has the potential to swamp parts of lower Manhattan, flood subway tunnels and cripple the network of electrical and communications lines that are vital to the nation's financial center.

Tens of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate in anticipation of the storm, including 375,000 in lower Manhattan and other parts of New York City. At least 50,000 were ordered to evacuate in Delaware alone and 30,000 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where the city's 12 casinos were forced to shut down for only the fourth time in the 34-year history of legalized gambling there.

Airlines canceled more than 7,200 flights and Amtrak began suspending passenger train service across the Northeast. New York and Philadelphia shut down their subways, buses and commuter trains Sunday night and announced that schools would be closed on Monday. Boston, Washington and Baltimore also called off school. In Washington and New Jersey, Metrorail and PATH train services were canceled.

"The time for preparing and talking is about over," Federal Emergency Management Administrator Craig Fugate said as Hurricane Sandy made its way up the Atlantic on a collision course with two other weather systems that could turn it into one of the most fearsome storms on record in the U.S. "People need to be acting now."

Forecasters said the hurricane could blow ashore Monday night or early Tuesday along the New Jersey coast, then cut across into Pennsylvania and travel up through New York State on Wednesday.

"We're looking at impact of greater than 50 to 60 million people," said Louis Uccellini, head of environmental prediction for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2012/10/29/millions-across-east-coast-brace-for-uperstorm-sandy/#ixzz2Ah5qZOnQ