Hurricane Sandy: From Birth to Landfall

Watch as tropical Storm Sandy forms in the Caribbean Sea, intensifies in the Atlantic Ocean along the U.S. East Coast, and makes landfall in New Jersey.

NOAA’s GOES satellites captured a global view of Hurricane Sandy’s birth to landfall. This animation of NOAA’s GOES-13 and GOES-15 satellite observations from Oct. 21-30, 2012, shows the birth of Tropical Storm Sandy in the Caribbean Sea, the intensification and movement of Sandy in the Atlantic Ocean along the U.S. East Coast, and Hurricane Sandy make landfall in New Jersey on Oct. 29 and move inland to Pennsylvania.