Sandy battering East Coast
Sandy is predicted to make landfall somewhere along the Mid-Atlantic or Northeast coast, either as a hurricane or powerful extratropical storm. Extratropical storms are a type of storm that typically affects the USA.
Storm surge
Wind
Rain
Snow
Tropical cyclones
Extratropical cyclones
Sources: AccuWeather; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
By Kevin A. Kepple, Doyle Rice, Frank Pompa and Denny Gainer, USA TODAY