Hurricane Sandy continues it surge through the Great Antilles with a path that could see the storm potentially impacting the east coast of the United States from Florida to as far north as New England according to Yahoo News.
The storm is currently hurling 80 mile per hour winds at Jamaica according to the county's National Hurricane Center. The path of the hurricane is predicted as travelling across Jamaica then north into Cuba early Thursday morning and eventually making its way to the Bahamas where it should according to Dennis Feltgen a spokesman for the NHC in Miami become a tropical storm.
"At that point the tropical force wind field will expand to more than 200 miles. That's why there is a tropical storm watch along the southeast Florida coast. That watch may have to be expanded northward," said Feltgen.
Some experts are labeling Hurricane Sandy as a potential "perfect storm." Paul Walker a senior meteorologist at AccuWeather.com in State College, Pa. said.
"The weather system could have some similarities to the perfect storm," but he doesn't think it will be as bad as the storm that ravaged New England in 1991 and spawned a Hollywood film.
Experts are saying that computer models used to track the path of the storm are not accurate at this point but believes that in the likelihood that the hurricane tries to push inland to the North American coast it will be downgraded to a tropical storm and winds would slow down considerably.
At the moment the storm is a category one hurricane and officials in Jamaica have issued a hurricane warning and a small craft advisory is in effect.
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