Hurricane Sandy was the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, as well as the second-costliest hurricane in United States history. Hurricane Sandy was also the largest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded (as measured by diameter with winds spanning 1,100 miles (1,800 km)). The severe and widespread damage the storm caused in the United States, as well as its unusual merge with a frontal system, resulted in the nicknaming of the hurricane by the media and several organisations of the United States government “Super-storm Sandy”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sandy

Hours after Super-storm Sandy howled its way through the East Coast, unleashing a fatal trail of destruction, global reactions included outpouring of sympathy and support. In Syria however, pro-government supporters welcomed the super-storm, claiming the natural disaster is the result of high-tech secret Iranian engineering. (Source – http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/31/world/meast/syria-sandy-facebook-claim/ & http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/31/syrian-supporters-claim-iran-technology-behind-hurricane-sandy_n_2049879.html).

CNN Source, Pro-government group “News Network” of the Syrian Armed Forces stated on a Facebook posting:

“Sources confirmed to us that Hurricane Sandy that is slamming the U.S. was set off by highly advanced technologies developed by the heroic Iranian regime that supports the resistance, with coordination of our resistive Syrian regime,”

“This is the punishment for whoever dares to attack Syria’s (Bashar) al-Assad and threaten peace and stability.”

Comments accompanying the post, which had more than 300 likes, ranged from derision to support. Was Hurricane Sandy another attack on the city of New York? (another September 11, 2001?).

Now lets look at the unusual, rare and coincidental occurrences.

Hurricane Sandy intensified before it made landfall.

“Unusually warm sea surface temperatures and interactions between Sandy’s circulation and an existing low pressure system caused the storm to intensify just as it made landfall. Its path through southern New Jersey produced the worst possible setup for New York City, with 80-100 mph southeast winds pushing water into Manhattan.” – https://helix.northwestern.edu/blog/2012/12/hurricane-sandy-frankenstorm

Speeding up and intensifying before making landfall in New Jersey “produced the worst possible setup for New York”.

Hurricane Sandy’s devastating storm track is a rare one among hurricanes. The track of the storm — which took an unusual left-hand turn in the Atlantic before slamming into the East Coast — has an average probability of happening only once every 700 years. “The particular shape of Sandy’s trajectory is very peculiar, and that’s very rare, on the order of once every 700 years,” said Timothy Hall, a senior scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. That means that in any particular year, the chance of such a storm track happening is 0.0014 percent. Source – Hurricane Sandy Was 1-in-700-Year Event: http://news.yahoo.com/hurricane-sandy-1-700-event-182934012.html

No other Atlantic hurricane of equal or greater strength has hit land at an angle anywhere near as perpendicular as Sandy, whose path was off by just 17 degrees from making a right angle with the coast. – http://blogs.agu.org/geospace/2013/06/03/hurricane-sandy-took-highly-unusual-path-but-climate-change-doesnt-get-the-blame-yet/

“Sandy’s track was the most perpendicular to the Atlantic Coast of any storm on record”. – http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/09/130902-hurricanes-climate-change-superstorm-sandy-global-warming-storms-science-weather/

Climate Central states: http://www.climatecentral.org/news/hurricane-sandy-unprecedented-in-historical-record-study-says-15505

“The impact angle of Hurricane Sandy was its most unusual feature, ensuring the storm surge would case maximum damage, Hall said. The storm’s left-hand turn put the most dangerous right-front quadrant on top of New Jersey and south-eastern New York, pummeling these areas with an historic storm surge and record high waves. That, combined with astronomical high tides, led to record storm tide levels.”

An article by Spencer Platt states: http://realtruth.org/articles/121027-001.html

“Normally, when hurricanes approach the East Coast from Sandy’s angle, they are pulled safely out to sea by a semi-permanent low-pressure center near Iceland. This time around, that low pressure isn’t there. In fact, it’s been replaced by a high pressure so intense it only occurs approximately 0.2% of the time on average. The coincidence of that strong of a high pressure ‘block’ being in place just when a hurricane is passing by—in and of itself a very rare occurrence—is just mindbogglingly rare. It’s the kind of stuff that’s important enough to rewrite meteorological textbooks. The result, instead of heading out to sea Sandy’s full force will be turned back against the grain and directed squarely at the East Coast.”

An article by Amy Ellis Nutt and Stephen Stirling states:  http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/11/experts_argue_global_warmings.html

“It wasn’t supposed to happen. That’s what the weather experts kept saying immediately before, during and after Sandy smacked New Jersey in the face. Not this far north, they said, not in autumn, and certainly not this bad.“

An article by Dr. Jeff Masters states (Weather Underground): http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2283

“We’re used to seeing hurricane-battered beaches and flooded cities in Florida, North Carolina, and the Gulf Coast. But to see these images from the Jersey Shore and New York City in the wake of Hurricane Sandy is a shocking experience. New Jersey only rarely gets hit by hurricanes because it lies in a portion of the coast that doesn’t stick out much, and is too far north. How did this happen? How was a hurricane able to move from southeast to northwest at landfall, so far north, and so late in hurricane season? We expect hurricanes to move from east to west in the tropics, where the prevailing trade winds blow that direction. But the prevailing wind direction reverses at mid-latitudes, flowing predominately west-to-east, due to the spin of the Earth. Hurricanes that penetrate to about Florida’s latitude usually get caught up in these westerly winds, and are whisked north-eastwards, out to sea.”

Skeptical Science states: http://www.skepticalscience.com/hurricane-sandy-climate-connection.html

“Hurricane Sandy was an unprecedented storm in modern times, arriving late in the hurricane season, making landfall abnormally far to the north on the US east coast.”

You would think that the largest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded would hit in the peak part of the season.

Is this a freak set of unusual, rare and coincidental occurrences, or was Hurricane Sandy an attack on the United States by the Iranian Regime?