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Mon Oct 29, 2012, 01:59 AM

Manifestor_of_Light (16,454 posts)

Latest Hurricane Sandy's Satellite Photos and Videos (Updating Live)

Source: Gizmodo

If you had any doubts about the scale of frankenstorm Sandy, check out NASA's latest global Earth image to see its size compared to the entire planet. We are now updating this post with images, video and warnings from NASA, NOAA and other sources as they arrive.

Update 7: NASA just posted a beautiful, natural-light time-lapse video that shows today's Sandy activity from dawn to dusk.

According to NOAA, "Sandy is expected to intensify as it interacts with an upper level system moving from the Great Lakes." The northeast region "may experience a widespread damaging storm, possibly of historic proportions".

According to NOAA, "Sandy is expected to slam into the New Jersey coast later monday night, bringing heavy rain and damaging winds" to all areas. They warn that you shouldn't pay attention to the center of the storm, as all areas will have significant impact.


Read more: http://gizmodo.com/5955575/earth-photo-shows-sandys-massive-size


Unbelievable pictures and satellite videos. Massive storm! The NWS bulletin explained all the unique circumstances of this storm, including producing snow.

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Reply Latest Hurricane Sandy's Satellite Photos and Videos (Updating Live) (Original post)
 Manifestor_of_Light Oct 2012 OP
LineReply Thank you.
 littlemissmartypants Oct 2012 #1
LineReply Those are stunning! And unbelievable.
 CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2012 #2
LineReply It's already windy here
 Rosa Luxemburg Oct 2012 #3
LineLineReply where are you?
 Voice for Peace Oct 2012 #8
LineLineNew Reply I am in North Georgia and we are getting a lot of wind.
 RebelOne Oct 2012 #25
LineLineLineNew Reply I'm in Nova Scotia and started getting lots of wind around that same time.
 Posteritatis Oct 2012 #28
LineReply Am I understanding correctly...
 Lionessa Oct 2012 #4
LineLineReply it's sucking two other storms or weather systems into itself, is my understanding,
 Voice for Peace Oct 2012 #9
LineLineLineReply AHA, I hadn't gotten to that one. So the stall caused the massive and it's now on the move.
 Lionessa Oct 2012 #13
LineLineReply so far...
 defacto7 Oct 2012 #11
LineLineNew Reply Jet Stream is heading south beneath the storm (over me in NC) pulling winter front into Sandy
 Hissyspit Oct 2012 #20
LineReply Good point about
 KT2000 Oct 2012 #5
LineReply This is simply a remarkable collection
 defacto7 Oct 2012 #6
LineLineReply well said nt
 Voice for Peace Oct 2012 #10
LineReply yow!
 Voice for Peace Oct 2012 #7
LineReply Amazing!
 StarryNite Oct 2012 #12
LineReply GEOS Full Disk (Updates every 3 hours)
 Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2012 #14
LineReply Something I noticed:
 Manifestor_of_Light Oct 2012 #15
LineLineReply I noticed that too
 eyewall Oct 2012 #18
LineReply I keep thinking this storm is going to move further east.
 loudsue Oct 2012 #16
LineReply Hol-ly criminee!
 Le Taz Hot Oct 2012 #17
LineNew Reply I'm in lower Westchester County, NY
 leftynyc Oct 2012 #19
LineNew Reply GD: ***** Hurricane Sandy = Satellite Imagery and News = BLOG *****
 Coyotl Oct 2012 #21
LineNew Reply Deadly comparisons: Sandy and Ike
 Gabby Hayes Oct 2012 #22
LineLineNew Reply I wouldn't want to have to pay for all the broken glass in NYC's skyscrapers. n/t
 gkhouston Oct 2012 #24
LineNew Reply Maybe the Mayans were right (NT)
 The Wizard Oct 2012 #23
LineNew Reply Stunning images.
 Brigid Oct 2012 #26
LineLineNew Reply We're under wind advisories in Detroit...
 susanna Oct 2012 #27

Response to Manifestor_of_Light (Original post)

Mon Oct 29, 2012, 02:09 AM

Star Member CaliforniaPeggy (104,466 posts)

2. Those are stunning! And unbelievable.

Thanks for the link!



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Mon Oct 29, 2012, 02:11 AM

Star Member Rosa Luxemburg (22,257 posts)

3. It's already windy here

Last edited Mon Oct 29, 2012, 02:12 AM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

thanks for the link

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Response to Rosa Luxemburg (Reply #3)

Mon Oct 29, 2012, 02:23 AM

Star Member Voice for Peace (8,510 posts)

8. where are you?

keep us updated at DU

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Mon Oct 29, 2012, 01:43 PM

RebelOne (27,010 posts)

25. I am in North Georgia and we are getting a lot of wind.

I am surrounded by a lot of big trees and I can hear the branches hitting my roof. And that is scary because I live in a mobile home.

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Mon Oct 29, 2012, 05:35 PM

Posteritatis (17,452 posts)

28. I'm in Nova Scotia and started getting lots of wind around that same time.

Nnnnnnnnot a small system.

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Mon Oct 29, 2012, 02:21 AM

Lionessa (3,894 posts)

4. Am I understanding correctly...

 

Last edited Mon Oct 29, 2012, 02:23 AM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

Not only is the problem that Sandy is so massive in size, but that additionally it's stalled rather than hitting land and ultimately petering out?

I don't think I've ever seen a hurricane even half that size, not move for an entire 24 hours, which was the second video on that page. onedit: I think I should re-phrase and say, not advance. Obviously it's moving ferociously. My bad.

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Response to Lionessa (Reply #4)

Mon Oct 29, 2012, 02:25 AM

Star Member Voice for Peace (8,510 posts)

9. it's sucking two other storms or weather systems into itself, is my understanding,

so it keeps getting bigger instead of just zooming onland.

one of those videos down toward the bottom I think it's
one of the early updates shows the transformation of
the storm over the last 8 days and I can kind of see
that happening, it starts out small and becomes massive.

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Mon Oct 29, 2012, 02:41 AM

Lionessa (3,894 posts)

13. AHA, I hadn't gotten to that one. So the stall caused the massive and it's now on the move.

 

It is heart stopping no doubt.

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Response to Lionessa (Reply #4)

Mon Oct 29, 2012, 02:31 AM

Star Member defacto7 (3,616 posts)

11. so far...

it has the lowest historic pressure... 950mb predicted to head down to 942mb, it is the largest depression in historic record at 1030 miles across compared to #2 at 690 miles. The storm surge could be as high as 3X that of Irene with levels as high as 11 feet plus wave height on top of that... This is historic and there is no model that can predict what it will do in the next 36 hours except that ALL models show it going strait into the coast around New Jersey. Whether it stalls or not is anyones guess. What it does inland could possibly be even worse because it's not going to slow much. This is out of the field of expectation.

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Response to Lionessa (Reply #4)

Mon Oct 29, 2012, 04:07 AM

Star Member Hissyspit (40,407 posts)

20. Jet Stream is heading south beneath the storm (over me in NC) pulling winter front into Sandy

Last edited Mon Oct 29, 2012, 04:32 AM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

with another front pushing from the north Atlantic, so it is steering it into New England, bringing a large tropical storm with VERY low pressure.

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Response to Manifestor_of_Light (Original post)

Mon Oct 29, 2012, 02:21 AM

Star Member KT2000 (9,796 posts)

5. Good point about

not limiting interest to just the center of the storm as the whole thing presents danger.
Thanks for posting this.

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Response to Manifestor_of_Light (Original post)

Mon Oct 29, 2012, 02:22 AM

Star Member defacto7 (3,616 posts)

6. This is simply a remarkable collection

of updated images. Quite a time we live in. An unprecedented convergence of 3 storm fronts, full moon hight tide, jet stream aloft, all hitting the coast strait on. Also an unprecedented period where 2 extremes of political ideologies converge in a storm of their own. In neither case do we know the consequences of the aftermath since both cases are uncharted. All we know is that we need to be prepared for both storms like we never have been before.

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Mon Oct 29, 2012, 02:26 AM

Star Member Voice for Peace (8,510 posts)

10. well said nt

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Mon Oct 29, 2012, 02:22 AM

Star Member Voice for Peace (8,510 posts)

7. yow!

great link, thanks!

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Mon Oct 29, 2012, 02:35 AM

StarryNite (2,785 posts)

12. Amazing!

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Mon Oct 29, 2012, 02:49 AM

Star Member Spitfire of ATJ (7,874 posts)

14. GEOS Full Disk (Updates every 3 hours)

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Mon Oct 29, 2012, 02:51 AM

Manifestor_of_Light (16,454 posts)

15. Something I noticed:

Never seen before: The NW part of the storm, instead of rotating CCW, has a boundary where further out from the center it rotates CW?? This must be part of the colliding fronts they are talking about.

I guess in my comments to the OP I shoud have said : HOLY SHIT!!!

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Mon Oct 29, 2012, 03:11 AM

eyewall (660 posts)

18. I noticed that too

Along the whole left side of the storm there's a stream running the opposite direction.

Looks unusual to me but maybe it's normal?

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Mon Oct 29, 2012, 03:08 AM

Star Member loudsue (12,396 posts)

16. I keep thinking this storm is going to move further east.

It just looks like the front from the great lakes is going to keep pushing it out.

Maybe that's just wishful thinking. It's a really broad weather pattern.

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Mon Oct 29, 2012, 03:10 AM

Star Member Le Taz Hot (14,644 posts)

17. Hol-ly criminee!

I've never seen anything like that.

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Mon Oct 29, 2012, 03:30 AM

leftynyc (10,503 posts)

19. I'm in lower Westchester County, NY

It's getting pretty breezy but no rain so far. Seems the rain is still south of us. Office is closed tomorrow and I suspect most of the city to be shut down with transportation suspended. Everyone is just hunkering down. The train tracks nearby flooded pretty badly with Irene and the ground floor of my apartment building got flooded (there's a creek that runs behind the building that was like rapids) so this one has us nervous.

Everyone in the path, please stay safe.

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Mon Oct 29, 2012, 05:28 AM

Coyotl (5,403 posts)

21. GD: ***** Hurricane Sandy = Satellite Imagery and News = BLOG *****

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021655002

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Mon Oct 29, 2012, 06:31 AM

Gabby Hayes (289 posts)

22. Deadly comparisons: Sandy and Ike

Just noticed a report measuring Sandy's barometric pressure at 27.78. Hurricane Ike, which struck Galveston in 2008, dropped to 27.61. The geography is different, but keep in the mind the almost unimaginable storm surge that roared across Galveston and surrounding communities.
Also take into consideration that wind speeds rise dramatically when swirling through downtown areas with tall buildings. Debris in general, especially falling from tall buildings, can be sudden and deadly.

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Mon Oct 29, 2012, 09:01 AM

Star Member gkhouston (21,642 posts)

24. I wouldn't want to have to pay for all the broken glass in NYC's skyscrapers. n/t

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Mon Oct 29, 2012, 08:25 AM

Star Member The Wizard (7,065 posts)

23. Maybe the Mayans were right (NT)

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Mon Oct 29, 2012, 02:23 PM

Brigid (10,744 posts)

26. Stunning images.

The storm is so big, we are even getting clouds and some wind from it here in Indy. Wow.

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Mon Oct 29, 2012, 02:45 PM

Star Member susanna (4,319 posts)

27. We're under wind advisories in Detroit...

...the radar is showing the outer edge of this storm just about on top of us. The blowing and gusting have already started.

This storm is huge. The OP photos are just amazing.

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