Latest on Hurricane Sandy (Updated)
NOAA’s GOES-13 Image of Sandy on Tuesday Morning
Keith’s note: This image was taken this morning by GOES-13. More recent images and animations can be found here.
MetOp-A captures Image of Hurricane Sandy
“Europe’s polar orbiting weather satellite, MetOp-A, captured this image of Hurricane Sandy just as the huge storm hit the east coast of the US yesterday.”
GOES-13 Satellite Shows Sandy’s Extent on Monday
“NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite captured a visible image of Hurricane Sandy battering the U.S. East coast on Monday, Oct. 29 at 9:10 a.m. EDT that showed the immense extent of the storm.”
Marc’s note: NASA Goddard is still under a code red for today. We’ll update you with any changes as we hear them. Please send in your news, tips, pictures to [email protected].
– The headline on the New York Times says it all: A REGION CRIPPLED
– Potential Weather Satellite Gap Finally Getting Media Attention Thanks to Hurricane Sandy, Space Policy Online
“Perhaps one silver lining from Hurricane Sandy is that the storm is raising awareness of the long-known likelihood that there will be a gap in weather satellite coverage a few years from now because new satellites are not ready to launch before older satellites cease functioning.”
Previous: Hurricane Sandy Tracking and Views from the Space Station (2 videos), SpaceRef
“As Hurricane Sandy nears landfall NASA and NOAA satellites are tracking the storm to provide continuous updates. This is the latest track. As well NASA is using the International Space Station to take pictures of Sandy. These latest images were take at 11:16 a.m. ET.“
I’d like to see NOAA perform a simulation (similar to the one they did for the “Snowmageddon” event) to show how much worse the forecasts for Sandy would have been without input from the polar-orbiting satellites. That might be an eye-opener.