Timelapse of Hurricane Sandy Shows Birth and Death of Historic Storm

e360.yale.edu 01 Nov '12, 3pm

Timelapse of Hurricane Sandy Shows Birth and Death of Historic Storm

01 Nov 2012: Timelapse of Hurricane Sandy Shows Birth and Death of Historic Storm As the storm that was Hurricane Sandy weakened over Pennsylvania, NASA released a timelapse animation of the lifespan of the massive storm , tracking its path from the Caribbean, where it developed, to its violent landfall on the mid-Atlantic coast of the U.S. The collection of images, taken by the NASA GOES-13 satellite from Oct. 23 to Oct. 31, illustrates the storm gaining intensity as it traveled north, at times reaching nearly 1,000 miles in width. When the storm reached the mid-Atlantic on Oct. 29, it became wedged between a cold front over the Appalachian Mountains and a high-pressure air mass over maritime Canada, preventing it from moving north or east and instead driving it ashore. At that point Sandy became a Nor’easter, triggering historic storm surges in coastal areas of New York ...

Full article: http://e360.yale.edu/digest/nasa_storm_timelapse_video_sh...

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