A peculiar combination of a hurricane and a winter storm has been coined as the "Frankenstorm". It is likely to sweep over the East Coast next week.
American government forecasters on Thursday predicted that there is a 90 percent chance that the East will receive strong winds, heavy rain, flooding and perhaps even some snow starting Sunday and continuing past Halloween on Wednesday.

Meteorologists estimate that it will most likelycause $1 billion in damages.

The storm is a meli-melo of Hurricane Sandy, which has presently cascaded in the Caribbean as a Category 2 storm, in addition to an early winter storm in the West and a blast of arctic air from the North. Those two weather chaos are forecasted to clash and halt over the country's most densely inhabited coastal corridor and reach as far inland as Ohio.
New Jersey will get the heat of the hurricane on Tuesday morning stated National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecaster Jim Cisco. But this is a storm that will affect a far wider area, so people all along the East have to be wary, Cisco said.

Coastal areas from Florida to Maine will get some hits, mostly from the hurricane part, he said, and the other areas of the storm will venture into the inland from North Carolina northward.

"It will get broader. It won't be as intense, but its effects will be spread over a very large area," the hurricane center's chief hurricane specialist, James Franklin, said Thursday.
"It's almost a weeklong, five-day, six-day event," Cisco said Thursday from NOAA's northern storm forecast center in near Washington. "It's going to be a widespread serious storm."
President Barack Obama has warned and urging people to listen to local officials and take safety precautions.

Meteorologists are calling this a historic century.

"We don't have many modern precedents for what the models are suggesting," Cisco said.