A University of Oklahoma student plotted every U.S. hurricane landfall since 1851, totaling 307. The mid-Atlantic region, particularly around Washington D.C., has seen very few direct hurricane ...

The 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac Hurricane (six 1933 on the U.S. landfall map) is very similar to Hurricane Isabel in 2003, making landfall on the Outer Banks in North Carolina first before racing ...

How Hurricane Sandy sprung weather models into the mainstream The notice that the storm’s models gained helped spur investments, but some fear it also sowed potential for public confusion ...

A Boston native and current University of Oklahoma student plotted every U.S. hurricane landfall since 1851, totaling 307. The map reveals a surprising truth about New England: this region, known ...

Sandy's strike here was indirect, but the consequences were catastrophic. A red hurricane symbol for Hurricane Sandy is seen on a map from the National Hurricane Center in Miami on Oct. 29, 2012.

Surface map of Sandy on October 29, 2012, near the time of transition to post-tropical. In essence, Sandy's core cooled, ... Sandy Rewrites NOAA’s Hurricane Playbook.

Hurricane Sandy is the most notable exception to this rule. But it is not on this map because it came ashore as a post-tropical cyclone near Atlantic City.

Superstorm Sandy in 2012 highlighted many problems with the FEMA maps. At the time, FEMA was in the process of updating its maps, but the storm struck before the process was complete, said Foley ...

People walk near the remains of burned homes after Hurricane Sandy in the Breezy Point neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City on Oct. 31, 2012.

The 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac Hurricane (six 1933 on the U.S. landfall map) is very similar to Hurricane Isabel in 2003, making landfall on the Outer Banks in North Carolina first before racing ...