What is Hurricane Sandy (2012)?
{{Infobox hurricane | Name = Hurricane Sandy | Type = hurricane | Year = 2012 | Basin = Atl | Image location = Sandy Oct 25 2012 0320Z.png | Image name = Hurricane Sandy at peak intensity just before landfall in [[Cuba]] on October 25 | track = Sandy 2012 track.png | Formed = October 22, 2012 | Dissipated = November 2, 2012 | Extratropical = October 29 | 1-min winds = 100 | Pressure = 940 | Damages = 68700 | Damagespost = [[List of costliest Atlantic hurricanes|Fourth-costliest]] [[hurricane]] in U.S. history | Fatalities = 233 total | Areas = [[Greater Antilles]], [[Bahamas]], most of the eastern [[United States]] (especially the coastal [[Mid-Atlantic States]]), [[Bermuda]], eastern [[Canada]] | Hurricane season = [[2012 Atlantic hurricane season]] }} '''Hurricane Sandy''' was an Atlantic [[tropical cyclone]] which affected parts of the [[Caribbean]], Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern [[United States]] in late October 2012, and became the largest Atlantic hurricane in diameter, with winds spanning 1,100&nbsp;miles (1,800&nbsp;km).<ref>{{cite news |title= Sandy Brings Hurricane-Force Gusts After New Jersey Landfall |url= http://washposngt.bloomberg.com/Story?docId=1376-MCMWP11A1I4H01-2DUORIV7RUREVIT7O7L4UFGTVF |newspaper= Washington Post |accessdate= 30 October 2012 }}{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Sandy Becomes Largest Atlantic Storm on Path to Northeast |url=http://www.sfgate.com/business/bloomberg/article/Sandy-Becomes-Largest-Atlantic-Storm-on-Path-to-3990898.php|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |accessdate= 30 October 2012}}</ref> It made [[Landfall (meteorology)|landfall]] on the East Coast of the United States and Eastern [[Canada]] ([[Nova Scotia]]). Sandy was the eighteenth tropical cyclone, eighteenth named storm, and tenth hurricane of the [[2012 Atlantic hurricane season]]. The storm developed from a [[tropical wave]] in the western [[Caribbean Sea]] on October 22. It quickly got bigger and stronger after becoming a [[tropical depr