Explanation:
It was the
largest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean.
The cost of its devastation is still unknown.
Pictured above is a
movie of
Superstorm Sandy
taken by the Earth-orbiting
GOES-13
satellite over eight days in late October as the hurricane formed,
gained strength,
advanced
across the
Caribbean, moved up the Atlantic
Ocean
along the US east coast, made an
unusual turn west,
made landfall in
New Jersey, turned back to
the north over
Pennsylvania,
and then broke up moving north-east over the northern US and
Canada.
Although Sandy's winds were high and dangerous, perhaps
even more
damaging was the
storm surge
of water pushed onto land ahead of
Sandy,
a surge that flooded many
coastal areas,
streets, and parts of the
New York
City
subway system.
Spanning over 1500 kilometers, US states as far west as Wisconsin
experienced
parts of the storm.
Although Hurricane
Sandy might
have formed at any almost time,
concerns are being raised that large storms like
Sandy might become more
common
if water in the Atlantic continues to
edge higher in
power-enhancing surface temperature.
