Hurricane Sandy off the Carolinas : Natural Hazards #NASA

Hurricane Sandy off the Carolinas : Natural Hazards

earthobservatory.nasa.gov 28 Oct '12, 7pm

Hurricane Sandy off the Carolinas : Natural Hazards #NASA

At noon Eastern Daylight Time (16:00 Universal Time) on October 28, 2012, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this image of Hurricane Sandy off the southeastern United States. At 11 a.m. local time (one hour before the image was captured), the U.S. National Hurricane Center reported that the storm was located at 32.5° North and 72.6° West, about 250 miles (400 kilometers) southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and 575 miles (930 kilometers) south of New York City. Maximum sustained winds were 75 miles (120 kilometers) per hour, and the central pressure was 951 millibars (28.08 inches). Forecasters predicted that the storm would continue heading north-northeast until the morning of October 29, and then take a hard turn to the northwest into the coastline of Delaware, New Jersey, or New York. The wind field from t...

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