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VOCABULARY
A Frankenstorm is a hurricane and winter storm hybrid, involving a "monster" combination of high winds, heavy rain, extreme tides and snow. A Frankenstorm carries with it a risk of fatalities, power outages and severe property damage (Urban Dictionary). • Sandy is forecast to combine with two other storms in the coming days, creating what the weather service has called a “Frankenstorm”.
NOTE
Frankenstorm is a made-up portmanteau word combining 'Frankenstein' and 'storm'.
ALSO SEE
• What Your Favorite Term for This Storm Says About You (Atlantic Wire)
• Hurricane Sandy: Is it a snowpocalypse? Snoreaster? Frankenstorm? (Time Out)
• 'Frankenstorm' makes it into English (ABC-CBN)
• ‘Frankenstorm’ accepted into English Lexicon — Though CNN Demurs (Global Language Monitor)
• The upcoming storm (Arnold Zwicky's Blog)
• Hurricane Sandy: No Time for Neologisms? (Visual Thesaurus)
