Hurricane Sandy is currently churning up the ocean of the United States' southeast coast. As the core hit landfall over Cuba yesterday, NASA's Suomi-NPP satellite took this image of the monster storm in the infrared:
[Click to coriolisenate.] Holy crap. That's a big hurricane. It's being nicknamed Frankenstorm due to it size, and I'm seeing lots of predictions that it'll be bigger and more damaging even than The Perfect Storm of 1991. This is because Sandy is a hurricane in its own right, but there is also a nor'easter, a low pressure system, off the coast farther north. Together, these two systems can produce a much larger storm capable of dropping a lot of rain and flooding inland areas. On top of that, of course, there's also high winds. The system is also slow moving, potentially making things a lot worse. That gives it more time to do damage, of ...
