What Sandy Looks Like from Space

The above NASA footage was captured and posted to Youtube on Friday, Oct. 26, with the caption:

This time-lapse animation shows Hurricane Sandy from the vantage point of geostationary orbit—35,800 km (22,300 miles) above the Earth. The image above shows Sandy on October 26, 2012, at 5:00 p.m. EDT, when light from the setting sun highlighted the structure of the clouds. At the time, maximum sustained winds were 75 miles per hour (120 kilometers per hour) according to the National Hurricane Center. The images were collected by NOAA's GOES-14 satellite. The "super rapid scan" images—one every minute from7:15 a.m. until 6:30 p.m. EDT—reveal details of the storm's motion.

NASA animation by Robert Simmon, using images from NOAA and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies.

Other Hurricane Sandy updates:

The New York Times website has a map showing the storm's likely path.

Chester County has announced that Lionville Middle School will serve as a shelter starting Sunday at 7 p.m.