Where did Hurricane Sandy hit on the east coast?
Hurricane Sandy came ashore in northern New Jersey Oct. 29, 2012, and as the powerful storm made its way along the East Coast it brought damage to NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va. The Wallops Shoreline Protection Project has been managing the restoration efforts and released before and after photos of the shoreline.
Where to see before and after photos of Superstorm Sandy?
Hover over each satellite photo to view the before and after comparison. Use our interactive images to see parts of the New Jersey coastline before and after the damage caused by superstorm Sandy. Aerial photos taken over Japan have revealed the scale of devastation across dozens of suburbs and tens of thousands of homes and businesses.
What was the name of the satellite that tracked Hurricane Sandy?
Sandy’s track is overlayed in white. NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM, satellite acts as a rain gauge in space as it orbits the Earth’s tropics. As TRMM flew over Hurricane Sandy since its birth on Oct. 21 it was gathering data that has now been mapped to show how much rain the storm dropped along the U.S. eastern seaboard.
How did Hurricane Sandy differ from other storms?
Sandy had similar characteristics while it was blowing through the tropics. But as the storm moved northward, it merged with a weather system arriving from the west and started transitioning into an extra-tropical cyclone. The names sound similar, but there are fundamental differences between the two types of storms.
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When was Hurricane Sandy downgraded to remnant low pressure?
This GOES-13 satellite image was captured on Oct. 31 at 1240 UTC as Sandy’s circulation was winding down over Pennsylvania. Sandy had been downgraded a remnant low pressure area. The National Weather Service map for Nov. 2, 2012 showed two areas of low pressure over eastern Canada, near Quebec.
Where was Wallops Island located during Hurricane Sandy?
Tropical-storm-force winds extended as far inland as the central and southern Chesapeake Bay as Hurricane Sandy closed in for landfall. Hurricane Sandy removed about 700 feet of protective berm and about 20 percent of the beach protecting Wallops Island, home to NASA Wallops’ launch pads and launch support facilities.
What was the response to Hurricane Sandy in Virginia?
Virginia’s barrier island system north of the mouth of Chesapeake Bay experienced extensive landward deposition of sand as low dunes were overtopped by waves and surge. North of Wallops Island, the storm response along Assateague Island varied spatially with dune morphology.
How did Hurricane Sandy affect the island of Rodanthe?
In Rodanthe, storm surge and waves eroded the dunes and the beach, depositing sand inland and shifting the shoreline landward. Prior to the storm several houses sat on top of, or just seaward of, the dunes or highest elevations on this part of the island.
How did Hurricane Sandy affect Assateague Island New York?
The majority of the northern end of Assateague Island was fronted by a 2 m high berm prior to Hurricane Sandy. Storm waves and elevated water levels destroyed the majority of this low dune structure, carrying sand inland and creating overwash deposits in the bay behind the island in narrow, low-lying places.