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hurricane Sandy

STUCK INSIDE AWAITING SANDY? CHECK OUT THESE BEAUTIFUL, USEFUL MAPS AND IMAGES OF THE STORM THAT’S CURRENTLY BEARING DOWN ON THE EAST COAST.

With Hurricane Sandy hastening its stroll up the East Coast, media coverage of the impending FRANKENSTORM has reached fever pitch. Some meteorologists are calling it “an unprecedented and bizarre” storm of the century. Others say that’s “shameless fear mongering.” The rest of us are reacting like this.

Whichever school of hurricane prep you ascribe to, all eyes (human and machine alike) are on the East Coast today, which has made for some interesting visualizations of the storm. It used to be that meteorologists made a “best guess” using data culled from weather balloons, which gleaned broad, imprecise insights into storm paths. In turn, evacuations were far broader than they are today. Thanks to satellite data, advanced modeling software, and broadcasting platforms that update in real time, today’s network news coverage unfolds in the moment, at times feeling more like a football game than an emergency broadcast.

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