Well, that didn’t take long. As you may recall, there’s
something of a controversy stemming from the National Hurricane
Center’s decision to not issue hurricane warnings for Sandy
north of North Carolina. Three days before landfall, believing
Sandy would transition into a non-tropical system more like a
winter storm before coming ashore, the hurricane center decided
to leave “non-tropical” warnings and watches to local National
Weather Service forecast offices. In the month since the storm’s
landfall, and with hurricane season ending Friday, this choice
has created considerable consternation in the community of
meteorologists and emergency managers who warn the public about
storms. “Its decision not to issue a hurricane warning as a
hurricane was approaching the coast was, in my opinion,
disastrous,” wrote Mike Smith, a senior AccuWeather forecaster
and author of “Warnings: The True Story of How Science Tamed the
Weather.” As a result of this, according to Accuweather, the
National Hurricane Center’s “hurrica