Extreme weather event continues to unfold in US

October 30, 2012 00:23

Recap -- Hurricane Sandy is approaching the US East Coast, expected to make landfall in the state of New Jersey on Monday evening.

The storm could affect up to 50 million people in the densely populated region, and is likely to last through the day on Tuesday.

This huge, late-season storm is colliding with a cold front moving south from Canada and is expected to result in blizzard conditions as far inland as West Virginia.

The storm is gaining energy from other weather systems and is combining to create a superstorm with the potential for devastation over 800 miles from the East Coast to the Great Lakes. About 2 to 3 feet of snow were forecast for mountainous parts of West Virginia, Maryland and Virginia.

"History is being written as an extreme weather event continues to unfold, one which will occupy a place in the annals of weather history as one of the most extraordinary to have affected the United States," said meteorologist Stu Ostro of the Weather Channel.

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