Datos Sobre El Huracan Sandy

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a tropical cyclone of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season that severely affected portions of the Caribbean, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern UnitedStates in late October it was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, with winds spanning 1,100 miles (1,800 km) Sandy is estimated in early calculations to have caused damage of at least $20billion (2012 USD)  It had a notable influence on the presidential election by raising the issue of global warming.
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Cyclones, hurricanes andtyphoons are all essentially the same thing, they simply receive different names depending on where they occur.
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Hurricane: a violent wind which has acircular movement, especially found in the West Atlantic Ocean. A hurricane is actually a violent storm formed with water which causes heavy rains and fierce winds and they can cause flooding ofstreets and homes.
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Cyclone: a violent tropical storm or wind in which the air moves very fast in a circular direction. They can be formedover tropical waters, bar the Southeast Pacific and the South Atlantic Oceans. Technically, all hurricanes are cyclones but not all cyclones are hurricanes: if their wind speed is over 74 miles per hour,they're hurricanes, if not, they're just cyclones or tropical storms. 
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Pressure systems that develop over tropical waters, with tropical-relatedcharacteristics are tropical cyclones, which include tropical storms, hurricanes, typhoons (western Pacific), etc., are called tropical cyclones. 

Systems that tend to develop in the multitudeswith a jet stream, cold core, etc. are referred to as extra-tropical cyclones. These systems usually produce severe weather in the spring and fall, and severe winter weather in the winter. ...