Sandy from space

[JTsyo]

NASA

Pretty cool video from a space view of Sandy. It's odd though that during night it didn't get that dark and no lights were seen. Anyone know if the ground is false color from some other data?

 

[ConwayJim]

very cool!

 

[BUTCH1]

Amazing how big this was and the acceleration to the left when it went inland was faster then I thought, very nice OP, thanks..

 

[CraigRT]

Super cool

 

[sdifox]

yeah, let's just take a left turn here, it looks good...

 

[DrPizza]

NASA

Pretty cool video from a space view of Sandy. It's odd though that during night it didn't get that dark and no lights were seen. Anyone know if the ground is false color from some other data?

Nope. Flash photography. They have a big flash bulb when they take the picture for each frame.

 

[sdifox]

Nope. Flash photography. They have a big flash bulb when they take the picture for each frame.

Thor was standing on the satellite providing flash...

 

[Northern Lawn]

How is this the perfect storm? I thought it looked like it was disappointing before landfall and I was expecting some other storm (or two) from the North to join in and make it a monster.

 

[Nintendesert]

How is this the perfect storm? I thought it looked like it was disappointing before landfall and I was expecting some other storm (or two) from the North to join in and make it a monster.

Because calling it a perfect storm drives television ratings.

 

[sdifox]

How is this the perfect storm? I thought it looked like it was disappointing before landfall and I was expecting some other storm (or two) from the North to join in and make it a monster.

This was the Frankenstorm. Perfect Storm is usually referring to the 1991 one. Good thing that one didn't land when it was peaking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Perfect_Storm

 

[purbeast0]

neat video.

and god damn i fucking love the way the bahamas looks from space.

 

[Northern Lawn]

This was the Frankenstorm. Perfect Storm is usually referring to the 1991 one. Good thing that one didn't land.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Perfect_Storm

You guys always have the best weather fukin tornado alley.. everything.

 

[sdifox]

You guys always have the best weather fukin tornado alley.. everything.

Que? I am Canadian...

 

[Northern Lawn]

Que? I am Canadian...

Sorry I assumed you were a Yank.

 

[sdifox]

Sorry I assumed you were a Yank.

I call Toronto Tonto because of the way it is run. Lived in Toronto for 21 years. Moved to Markham this Jan.

 

[BUTCH1]

How is this the perfect storm? I thought it looked like it was disappointing before landfall and I was expecting some other storm (or two) from the North to join in and make it a monster.

Although the eye wall collapsed before landfall the winds didn't diminish at all, coupled with the low pressure it ran into produced the lowest pressure ever recorded over North America. You've got to remember too that if a storm is packing 95MPH winds and it's forward speed is 15MPH that gets added to the total force so in reality your looking at wind speeds of 105MPH over a massive area..

 

[Kaido]

I liked the shoryuken at 2:48 :awe:

 

[WaTaGuMp]

The clouds should of formed the words, " We are coming to fuck you up "

 

[EagleKeeper]

One could see the pressure ridge build that forced the left turn into the coast

 

[leeland]

marked for home

 

[Stifko]

How is this the perfect storm?

It came at a full moon.

Look how far offshore Sandy was before she hung the left and came inland. She was way out there at sea.

 

[mpo]

NASA

Pretty cool video from a space view of Sandy. It's odd though that during night it didn't get that dark and no lights were seen. Anyone know if the ground is false color from some other data?

It is a composite image. The clouds are from the infrared sensor on the satellite, processed, then overlaid onto a static full-color ground image.