Updated at 2:00 p.m. with latest stories from up and down the East Coast
Hurricane Sandy is gaining strength and has taken a left turn toward the East Coast and its date with two other weather systems. An official with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is calling it “the worst-case scenario.
Hurricane Sandy gains power and aims for Northeast
Hurricane Sandy is gaining strength and has taken a left turn toward the East Coast and its date with two other weather systems. An official with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is calling it “the worst-case scenario.”
The storm, with tropical storm-force winds extending almost 500 miles from its center, is expected to blow ashore along the New Jersey coast tonight or early tomorrow. Combined with high tides and a full moon, it brings the fear of a huge surge of seawater.
The combined storm is expected to affect everyone from the East Coast to the Great Lakes, with up to 3 feet of snow forecast for the West Virginia mountains.
Will update later tonight and tomorrow as to what we got as far as sustained winds and gusts, as well what our barometer ends up bottoming out at, it has been falling very rapidly over the last several hours.
Highest Wind Gust : 25.9 mph (bearing 45°) at 5:51 PM
Highest Sustained Wind : 22.1 mph (F5) at 5:53 PM
Low Barometer : 29.05 in at 11:18 PM / 983.7 hPa
Rainfall : 0.34 in
By and large here in Central New York, we fared pretty well, there was/is several thousand people
without power, but far less than they were expecting. We dodged the bullet that our neighbors to the
east were not so lucky.