Tropical Storm Sandy formed in the Caribbean Sea on October 22. After drifting slowly southwest on October 23, Sandy turned to the north and intensified to a hurricane on October 24, just before making landfall in Jamaica. Hurricane Sandy continued to the north and intensified to a strong category two hurricane before making landfall again in Cuba shortly after Midnight EDT on the 25th. Hurricane Sandy emerged on the other side of Cuba during the morning of the 25th and proceeded to drift northwest as a category one or two hurricane as it moved through the Bahamas on the 25th and 26th. Overnight on the 26th, Hurricane Sandy (Category 1) started to move toward the north northeast, a motion that continued into the evening of the 28th. From there, Sandy���s motion became driven by two factors. An anomalously strong blocking ridge over the Canadian Maritimes prevented Sandy from escaping to the east. Simultaneously, an approaching and deepening extratropical trough was about to capture Sandy. The combination of the two, turned Sandy to the north overnight on the 28th and then to the northwest on the 29th.
As Sandy continued to move northwest and interact with the mid latitude trough, its interaction continued to make it less tropical, but did not weaken it much. Sandy continued to make a harder turn to the left (west) and made landfall in Atlantic County as a post tropical storm in Brigantine City just north of Atlantic City at 7:30 p.m. EDT on the 29th. The estimated minimum central pressure was 945 millibars. The lowest recorded central pressure was 945.6 millibars at the Atlantic City Marina at 7:34 p.m. EDT.
Record breaking high tides and wave action was combined with sustained winds of 40 to 60 mph and wind gusts of 80 to 90 mph.
These extreme conditions resulted in at least 5 deaths and widespread property damage of at least 360 million dollars.
Emergency managers recommended mandatory evacuations of 362,000 people that lived in low lying areas. Widespread significant statewide power outages of 667,598 lasted up to 8 days.

Coastal Flood in SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT
From 29-OCT-12 10:00:00 to 30-OCT-12 00:30:00 (EST-5)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Official NWS Observations

Coastal communities along Southern New Haven County experienced two successive tidal cycles with at least moderate coastal flooding on Monday October 29th. The peak of this surge occurred Monday Night as Sandy made landfall in Southern New Jersey, with widespread major coastal flooding occurring along the Southern New Haven coast.
Peak storm tides surpassed water levels from Hurricane Irene in 2011. The record storm tide levels along Western Long Island Sound resulted from a peak storm surge of about 7 to 9 feet that coincided with normal high tides. These storm tides resulted in up to 2 to 5 feet of inundation several blocks inland along Long Island Sound, with a few feet of inundation working north of I-95 in several spots along waterways such as the Housantonic River in Milford, the West River and Quinnipiac River in New Haven, Branford River in Branford, and East River in Guilford.
The most widespread major damage occurred along soundfront communities in Milford and East Haven. Several soundfront homes were completely destroyed in Momaguin in East Haven and Milford Lawn, Morningside, and Silver Beach in Milford. Smaller pockets of major damage also occurred in coastal areas of Guilford and Branford.

Coastal Flood in SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX, CONNECTICUT
From 29-OCT-12 10:00:00 to 30-OCT-12 00:30:00 (EST-5)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Official NWS Observations

Coastal communities along Southern Middlesex County experienced two successive tidal cycles with at least moderate coastal flooding on Monday October 29th. The peak of this surge occurred Monday Night as Sandy made landfall in Southern New Jersey, with widespread major coastal flooding occurring along the Southern Middlesex coast.
Peak storm tides surpassed water levels from Hurricane Irene in 2011. The record storm tide levels along Eastern Long Island Sound resulted from a peak storm surge of about 6 to 8 feet that coincided with normal high tides. These storm tides resulted in up to 2 to 3 feet of inundation several blocks inland along Long Island Sound, with 1 to 2 feet of inundation working north of I-95 in several spots along waterways such as the Hammonassett River in Clinton, and almost 15 miles inland along the Connecticut River.
The most widespread major damage occurred along soundfront communities in Westford and Saybrook Harbor. Smaller pockets of major damage also occurred in coastal areas of Clinton and Fenwick.

Coastal Flood in SOUTHERN NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT
From 29-OCT-12 09:30:00 to 30-OCT-12 00:00:00 (EST-5)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Official NWS Observations

Coastal communities along Southern New London County experienced two successive tidal cycles with at least moderate coastal flooding on Monday October 29th. The peak of this surge occurred Monday Night as Sandy made landfall in Southern New Jersey, with widespread major coastal flooding occurring along the Southern New London coast.
Peak storm tides surpassed water levels from Hurricane Irene in 2011, only being topped by Hurricane Carol in 1954 and the 1938 Hurricane. The record storm tide levels along Eastern Long Island Sound resulted from a peak storm surge of about 5 to 7 feet that coincided with normal high tides. These storm tides resulted in up to 2 to 3 feet of inundation a few blocks inland along low lying portions of Long Island Sound, with 1 to 2 feet of inundation working north of I-95 in several low spots along waterways such as the Niantic River in Niantic, Mystic River in Mystic, and almost 15 miles inland along the Connecticut and Thames Rivers.
Pockets of major damage occurred in Old Lyme.

Coastal Flood in SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD, CONNECTICUT
From 29-OCT-12 10:00:00 to 30-OCT-12 00:30:00 (EST-5)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Official NWS Observations

Widespread record coastal flooding occurred along Western Long Island Sound. Along the Southern Fairfield coast, peak storm tides surpassed water levels from the October 31, 1991 and December 11, 1992 nor'easters and the recorded peaks from Hurricane Irene in 2011 and the 1938 Hurricane.
The record storm tide levels along Western Long Island Sound resulted from a peak storm surge of about 8 to 9 feet that coincided with normal high tides. These storm tides resulted in up to 2 to 5 feet of inundation several blocks inland along Long Island Sound, with a few feet of inundation working north of I-95 in several spots along waterways such as the Pequonnock River in Bridgeport, Ash Creek and Mill River in Fairfield, Saugatuck River in Westport, and Norwalk River in Norwalk.
The most widespread major damage occurred in Bridgeport and Fairfield townships, with isolated pockets of heavy damage, such as in Greenwich. In addition, Igor Sikorsky Airport experienced inundation of both runways by a few feet of water with inundation reaching the terminal building.