Hurricane Sandy is a late season tropical cyclone affecting Jamaica, Cuba, The Bahamas, Haiti and Florida, and is threatening the United States East Coast and Eastern Canada. The eighteenth tropical cyclone, eighteenth named storm, and tenth hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, Sandy developed from an elongated tropical wave in the western Caribbean Sea on October 22. It quickly strengthened after becoming a tropical depression and was upgraded to Tropical Storm Sandy six hours later. Sandy moved slowly northward toward the Greater Antilles and gradually strengthened. On October 24, Sandy was upgraded to a hurricane, shortly before making landfall in Jamaica. Upon moving further north, Sandy reentered water and made its second landfall in Cuba during the early morning hours on the next day, October 25, as a Category 2. In the Caribbean, at least 15 people were killed. During the late evening of October 25, Sandy weakened to a Category 1 and headed north through the Bahamas in the early hours of October 26.

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