Why is hurricane irene coming to NY

i feel stupid for asking but hurricanes almost never get all the way up North. Is it possibly due to global warming of some sort or just completely random. And Does it have to do with the earth quake? Serious answers please thanks :)

It is not a stupid question, and the people saying negative things are the stupid ones. Sometimes children aren't born knowing everything jerks.
I believe that usually there are fronts that kinda help keep the storms down farther, and they do go to NY sometimes, just usually are broken up because they hit land more south and they weaken when they hit land. FYI, the temperature on Mars and Venus has increased too, so this stuff about pollution causing global warming is BS. No earthquake is under ground from the earth shifting, Tropical system storms are from Africa.

My smartass answer to your question is She is coming because she can't stand yankees. Or that she likes Nathan's hot dogs.

the reason it's going all the way up north like this is because of the path it is taking and the strength of the hurricane. the majority of the storm is supposed to stay over the ocean, allowing it to keep up strength. also, since the path is going straight up the coast, it provides the shortest route for the hurricane to take to get up north

Its not related to the earthquake, but nature has been chaotic lately! Perhaps global warming, perhaps not.. no one really knows why this is happening. All we can do is prepare and keep ourselves safe from it!

ps; forget those freaks who say you need an IQ test... they obviously need one for feeling a need to put someone down for a simple question

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