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Hurricane Sandy Downgraded to Tropical Storm, ‘Widespread Impacts’ Still Expected (Update: Back to a Hurricane)

Oct. 27, 2012 7:54am
Hurricane Sandy Downgraded to Tropical Storm, Widespread Impacts Still Expected

Cubans try to recover belongings from a destroyed house in Holguin, Cuba on Friday Oct. 26, 2012. Hurricane Sandy claimed 11 lives as it tore across the country Thursday, leaving a path of destruction in the eastern part of the island, officials in Havana said. (AFP/Getty Images)

​UPDATE: ​Forecasters said Sandy has regained hurricane strength with sustained winds of 75 mph, just hours after downgrading it to a tropical storm.

​Original story below:

The National Weather Service dropped Sandy from hurricane to tropical storm status, but weather forecasters still warn that “widespread impacts” are expected into next week along the east coast.

A public advisory issued at 5 a.m. Saturday from the National Hurricane Center said the storm’s maximum sustained winds had fallen to 70 mph, however the weather service said “restrengthening” possible Sunday night.

Despite the status downgrade, the forecasters said Sandy “is expected to remain a large storm with widespread impacts into early next week.”

Forecasters have predicted Sandy will hit an east coast winter storm as it moves inland, creating a hybrid monster system that’s been dubbed “Frankenstorm.”

Fox News:

Tropical storm warnings were issued for parts of Florida’s East Coast, along with parts of coastal North and South Carolina and the Bahamas. Tropical storm watches were issued for coastal Georgia and parts of South Carolina, along with parts of Florida and Bermuda.

Experts said the storm could be wider and stronger than Irene, which caused more than $15 billion in damage, and could rival the worst East Coast storm on record.

As it spun away from the Bahamas late Friday, Sandy was blamed for more than 43 deaths across the Caribbean. The 18th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season hit the Bahamas after cutting across Cuba, where it tore roofs off homes and damaged fragile coffee and tomato crops.

Hurricane Sandy Downgraded to Tropical Storm, Widespread Impacts Still Expected

Cars line up for gas at the Sam’s Club, in Pleasantville, N.J., as Hurricane Sandy makes its way up the coast Friday Oct. 26, 2012. A year after being walloped by Hurricane Irene, residents rushed to put away boats, harvest crops and sandbag boardwalks Friday as the Eastern Seaboard braced for a rare megastorm that experts said would cause much greater havoc. (AP)

NBC News:

People in the Northeast have been warned to prepare for flooding, high winds, widespread power outages and even snow.

“It will be unpredictable until the last minute,” Jim Cisco, a forecaster at the National Weather Service’s prediction office, told NBC News Friday. “That really is the truth of the situation … we’re not sure how it’s going to behave.”

That’s because Sandy will be making a hard west turn from the Atlantic, a rare occurrence. “It’s coming in at a sharper angle” than previous storms because cold air moving in from the Northern Plains is undercutting Sandy’s circulation, Cisco added.

On top of that, a new lunar cycle will bring high tides Sunday, Monday and Tuesday — adding to the storm surge from Sandy.

CNN:

Weather forecasters still predict it will push in a large storm surge as it nears land, inundate a broad, highly populated region with rain, and knock out power for perhaps weeks with its broad, destructive winds.

“Forget about the category with this,” said CNN meteorologist Rob Marciano. “When you have trees with leaves on them still, this kind of wind and rain on top of that, you’re talking about trees that are going to come down, power lines are going to be out and the coastal flooding situation is going to be huge.”

Sandy is still predicted to merge with a strong cold front from the west and morph into a “superstorm.”

This “will energize this system, so we’ll actually get an intensification of this system,” Uccellini said.

The resulting storm could sit over New England, making untold trouble for millions of residents, even dumping heavy snow in the Appalachians.

“Expect it to move very slowly,” said James Franklin of the National Hurricane Center. “The large size of the system and its slow motion will mean a long-lasting event with two to three days of impacts.”

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Comments (39)

  • BruceLove
    Posted on October 28, 2012 at 12:05pm

    You watch, because of storm “Sandy”, Obama will send in Mobil election centers, that he controls the outcome!
    Can you say, our tax dollars at work to help steal the vote!

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  • iblvingd
    Posted on October 28, 2012 at 2:12am

    So I just heard Obama going to take time off because of the dangerous storm. What the hell Obama you couldn’t do that for the Bengazi attack! The storm must be going to get too close to his home!

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  • mbck1491
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 9:00pm

    The next hurricane is going to be called Barack which will make landfall about a week after Sandy. I heard that one is going to pass right over Washington D.C. and keep heading west towards Chicago. That one is ever bigger than Sandy with much more carnage in it’s path, and more widespread destruction. Hurricane Barack I heard that like Sandy will also give us a snow job.

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  • PointBreak
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 7:31pm

    Somewhere along the east coast a ‘prepper’ is resting easy.

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  • Monolith
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 4:58pm

    This is serious this isn’t hype. Especially all the power outages about to happen. Its really rough for the elderly, and handicapped plus with the weather being so cold lately not good for some folks. Hope the electrical companies have there crap together better than they did this summer.

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    • Brooke Lorren
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 7:32pm

      “Knock out power for perhaps weeks”… with the election over one week away. What are counties with electronic ballots going to do if the power is still knocked out on November 6th?

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    • Monolith
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 8:58pm

      I have no idea at that point if it is weeks. I would be more worried about my own ( family and community ) survival rather than an election. I hope everyone stays safe and can vote.

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      Monolith  
  • ellietoo
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 10:54am

    Is the Blaze staff part time? This storm was upgraded again this morning to a hurricane. If your not going to update at least remove stories that are not relevant anymore.

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    • The Gooch
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 11:12am

      Grrrrr!!!

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    • PaxInVeritate
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 11:30am

      GOOCH… *chuckles* git ‘er boy! Git ‘er!

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    • SITDOWNANDSHUTUP
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 12:24pm

      As the storm heads north over the cooler waters, the ability to maintain hurricane status will become more and more difficult. The odds of hitting the Jersey Shore at hurricane status is almost zero. Hurricanes are fueled by warm waters (above 85 F)

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  • The citizen who cares
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 10:38am

    If the Obama team sees at November 6th that they are loosing the election, I bet you they postpone the election so he has a better chance to win. If they are winning, they won’t postpone the election.

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  • Bluefish49
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 10:21am

    Just a thought…if this storm really does a lot of damage I.E.-mass power outages lasting weeks, death and massive destruction could the WH along with the state governors declare a state of emergency thus allowing the POTUS by executive order to postpone the elections or at least extend the voting period.

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    • GodHatesFigs
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 10:47am

      Obama has a hurricane machine!

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    • PurrrpleMtnMajesty
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 12:04pm

      One would think so….just like the GOP convention….
      are they making mountains out of molehills to avoid addressing the REAL issues, like Bengazhi?
      Don’t forget the media owns the weather channel & promote the global warming due to manmade causes.
      Just because you are paranoid, doesn’t mean they *aren’t* out to get you.

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    • Fubared
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 12:29pm

      Interstate 81 is chocked full of line trucks with cherry pickers and spare poles heading north. It doesn’t seem to be a fun scenario for those in the effected areas. These morons can’t run Amtrak, the PO service, or the state dept, but somehow they can control the weather?

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  • historyguy48
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 9:57am

    This whole bit of storm media panic is intended to do only one thing; take Dear Leaders Libyan fiasco off the front pages and out of peoples minds. Since a lot of Americans are little more than mindless zombies it is probably working quite well.

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  • Robert Hawk
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 9:57am

    CNN – CBS – NBC (the Marxist news media) spun this story into a frenzy to attempt a side step of Benghazi, however its petered out into a standard tropical storm with some winds less than most F1 tornados…
    Benghazi rages on as this tropical stom subsides and turns into nothing (what it always was in the first place). All the models required this storm to make a violent turn to the left in order for it to ever hit Washington DC. The more accurate tracking was always Nova Scotia as a tropical storm and that is what the truth is shaping up to be.
    Sorry Marxist/Leninist you will be provide no further crisis which will overstep Benghazi.

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  • PatriotDadOfSix
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 9:49am

    Seems to me the only ones freaking out over this are those that don’t know how to fend for themselves. I make my own bread, have a hand pump backup on my well, a dozen hurricane lamps, and a stocked freezer with a generator in the basement. All I really need to do is go buy a couple cartons of smokes, and grab an extra 30 pack of beer. Then just kick back and watch the carnage play out.

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    • PatriotDadOfSix
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 9:53am

      Oh, and the Ford diesel crew cab, quad, and chainsaw are fueled up. Maybe I’ll get to use the winch this time. lol

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  • Mikev5
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 9:16am

    Over hyping any weather as some big story has become so regular as to be crazy things that would never get on the news as weather is now common place every week it seems. I’m not sure if it’s them trying to push the global warming garbage or they are desperate to get any kind of story out. This seemed to have started 8 years ago from my observations the over hyping of the weather. On my win 7 computer I have a weather gadget and that thing is flashing a bad or dangerous weather condition every week and its usually for nothing

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 9:13am

    Women…just can’t make up their minds.

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    Gonzo  
  • KENTUCKIANAPATRIOT
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 8:59am

    Wonder what would happen in the after-math of a storm–say if ELECTION day rolled around? If Katrina had happened–or some of the quakes through the years–how would’ve it been handled–if there had been National Elections & potentially millions of people in multiple states were truly unable to vote? THAT would have it’s own aftermath. Never happened, I don’t think–why would this year be different?

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  • bluntforce
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 8:49am

    The hand wringing lib-tard’s who run the 24 hour news and weather channels have to have something to bleat about. They won’t talk about Comrade Obama’s lies or relate the truth about man made “global warming” to their viewer’s, so this large rainstorm is right up their alley.

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  • woodyee
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 8:42am

    “Widespread Impacts Still Expected”.

    In other words – “Erah, we’re still not going to headline the CIA reports and transmissions on Benghazi.”

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  • Toxic Pirate
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 8:38am

    Huge investigation forth coming on why this storm was allowed to lower it’s intensity without the permission of the king.

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  • Lee_in_PA
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 8:34am

    As soon as I saw it being referred to as the storm of the century I said to the family, this isn’t going to pan out like they expect. We managed to get thru Hurricane Agnes back in 1972 here in PA, and it was bad. A tropical storm we can handle without a lot of problems other than a lot of rain will cause the streams to rise. Those who live near water already know what to do, and have done it.

    Blaze, thank you for the early update. Now I don’t have to run out for the big 4 (eggs, bread, milk and TP) and batteries. *-)

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  • blanco5
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 8:23am

    Ahhh, poor prez islama wanted major disaster so he could thwart attention away from Benghazi and make everyone change their mind and vote for him after all.

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    • woodyee
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 8:43am

      Good morning Blanco and GARY K – I love it when folks are on the ball at 5AM!

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    • blanco5
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 9:13am

      Morning, Woodyee! I envy your early morning cheerfullness!

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      blanco5  
    • Gary_K
      Posted on October 27, 2012 at 9:18am

      Good morning Woodyee, what are you doing up at 5 am?

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  • Gary_K
    Posted on October 27, 2012 at 8:16am

    Yep, rain and wind in the north east….like that’s never happened before.

    All hype to distract from what’s really going on.

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