Hurricane Sandy Projected Path: View LIVE STORM TRACKER, U.S. Landfall Next Week
Weather forecasters are stating that Sandy, along with an expanding wind field that's 550 miles in width, has began to merge with a polar air mass over the eastern United States. The potential results are said to have the potential to cause a "superstorm," which could impose a serious threat along the East Coast.
According to Reuters, Todd Kimberlain, a forecaster at the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami explained the scientific nature of Sandy.
"Its structure is evolving as we speak because it's interacting with this weather feature at higher levels of the atmosphere. The models are suggesting that the storm could actually become better organized or intensify a little bit, not due to the normal processes than we would expect for a tropical cyclone but more related to this weather feature."
If the projections are indeed accurate, government forecasters believe that Sandy could hit land early next week anywhere from Virginia, Maryland or Delaware up through the New York or southern New England areas.
In New York City, which is considered a global financial hub, officials are considering the closure of mass transit before the storm is slated to reach.
On late Thursday, Sandy was had reportedly ripped through the sparsely populated southeastern islands of the Bahamas. In the process, it was said to have blown off rooftops and knocked out power for several residents.
Making its presence known in the final weeks before the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 6, Sandy could very well halt any last-minute travel campaigns that President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney may have.
An aide to Romney did state that he'd cancelled a campaign event that was scheduled in Virginia Beach, Virginia on Saturday night. The Obama camp stated that they were closely monitoring Sandy as the President is scheduled for travel to New Hampshire on Saturday and then Youngstown, Ohio, and Orlando, Florida on Monday.
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