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This image of Hurricane Sandy was acquired by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on theSuomi NPP satellite around 2:42 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (06:42 Universal Time) on October 28, 2012.

Τα πρώτα αποτελέσματα του Σάντι, έγιναν αισθητά την Κυριακή κατά μήκος της ανατολικής ακτής, καθώς ακυρώθηκαν χιλιάδες πτήσεις και εκατοντάδες χιλιάδες άνθρωποι, αναγκάστηκαν να εκκενώσουν παράκτιες περιοχές.

Ο πρόεδρος Μπαράκ Ομπάμα κάλεσε τους συμπατριώτες του, να «πάρουν στα σοβαρά» τον κίνδυνο.

Τα μεσάνυχτα 0:00 GMT, ο τυφώνας ήταν σε απόσταση 780 μιλίων νότια της Νέας Υόρκης, σύμφωνα με το Αμερικανικό Κέντρο για τους Τυφώνες (NHC) στο Μαϊάμι, ενώ κινείται με ανέμους 120 χιλιομέτρων την ώρα. Οι άνεμοι αναμένεται να ενισχυθούν αισθητά καθώς ο τυφώνας κινείται σε ψυχρότερα νερά, ενώ στο μάτι του τυφώνα κινούνται με ταχύτητα 800 χιλιόμετρα σύμφωνα με το ίδιο κέντρο.

Τη στιγμή της υψηλής παλίρροιας, η άνοδος των υδάτων μπορεί να φτάσει τα 3,30 μέτρα στον πορθμό του Λονγκ Αϊλαντ και τον κόλπο της Νέας Υόρκης. 

«Μην βασίζεστε στο γεγονός ότι αυτός είναι ένας τυφώνας κατηγορίας 1 στην κλίμακα της πεντάβαθμης κλίμακας Saffir-Simpson» , προειδοποίησε ο Ρικ Κναμπ, εξηγώντας ότι καλύπτει μια τεράστια περιοχή και αντιπροσωπεύει έναν πραγματικό κίνδυνο.

The storm was captured by a special “day-night band,” which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe dim signals such as auroras, airglow, gas flares, city lights, and reflected moonlight. In this case, the cloud tops were lit by the nearly full Moon (full occurs on October 29). Some city lights in Florida and Georgia are also visible amidst the clouds.

At the time of the image, the U.S. National Hurricane Center estimated Sandy’s location to be 31.5° North and 73.7° West, 275 miles (445 kilometers) south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and moving northeast at 14 miles (22 kilometers) per hour. Maximum sustained winds were 75 miles (120 kilometers) per hour, and the minimum central barometric pressure was 960 millibars (28.35 inches).

Forecasters predicted that the storm would head 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 tropical cyclone is being blocked by an intense high-pressure system over the North Atlantic and is expected to merge with an intense winter weather system over the continental United States. Sandy will likely become a post-tropical storm that could affect an area from the Carolinas to New England, and as far inland as the Great Lakes. The National Weather Service described the unusual merging (PDF) and what it might mean:

The primary difference between a tropical cyclone and a wintertime cyclone is the energy source. Tropical cyclones extract heat from the ocean and grow by releasing that heat in the atmosphere near the storm center. Wintertime cyclones (also called extratropical or frontal lows), get most of their energy from temperature contrasts in the atmosphere, and this energy usually gets distributed over larger areas. Because of these differences, tropical cyclones tend to have more compact wind fields, tend to be more symmetric, and have a well-defined inner core of strong winds. Wintertime lows have strong temperature contrasts or fronts attached to them, have a broader wind field, and more complex distributions of rain or snow.

For more views of the storm, visit our Hurricane Sandy event page and the NASA Hurricane Resource Page. The National Hurricane Center, operated by NOAA, provides the official U.S. storm forecasts and regular updates on conditions on its home page.

The Suomi NPP satellite, which captured this unusual view of the storm, was launched one year ago today (on October 28, 2011) to extend and enhance long-term records of key environmental data monitored by NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the U.S. Department of Defense.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using VIIRS Day-Night Band data from theSuomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP). Suomi NPP is the result of a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Department of Defense. Caption by Michael Carlowicz.