Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic tropical system on record,
[1][2] is a late-season
tropical cyclone that has affected
Jamaica,
Cuba,
the Bahamas,
Haiti, the
Dominican Republic, and the
eastern seaboard of the
United States, and is currently affecting the area south of the
Great Lakes Region of the United States, and
Eastern Canada. The 18th tropical cyclone, 18th
named storm, and 10th hurricane of the
2012 Atlantic hurricane season, Sandy developed from an elongated
tropical wave in the western
Caribbean Sea on October 22. It became a tropical depression, quickly strengthened, and was upgraded to a tropical storm six hours later. Sandy moved slowly northward toward the
Greater Antilles and gradually strengthened.
On October 24, Sandy was upgraded to a hurricane, shortly before making landfall in Jamaica. Upon moving farther north, Sandy re-entered water and made its second landfall in Cuba during the early morning of October 25 as a Category 2 hurricane. During the late evening of October 25, Sandy weakened to Category 1 strength; in the early hours of October 26, it headed north through the Bahamas.
[3] Sandy briefly weakened to a tropical storm in the early morning hours of October 27, then restrengthened to a
Category 1 hurricane later that morning.
Just before 8 a.m. on October 29, Sandy turned to the north-northwest and started to make its ...
