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The name came from James Cisco, a forecaster with the federal government's Hydrometeorological Prediction Center in College Park, Md.
Cisco first used the name Thursday afternoon in an online report:
The winds from Sandy, he wrote, will be "incorporated into a hybrid vortex entering over the mid-Atlantic and Northeast next Monday & Tuesday." This "unusual merger should settle back toward the interior Northeast through Halloween (Wednesday), inviting perhaps a ghoulish nickname for the cyclone along the lines of 'Frankenstorm,' an allusion to Mary Shelley's Gothic creature of synthesized elements."
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