A late season tropical cyclone that threatened Jamaica, Cuba, Bahamas, Haiti and Florida, and grazed United States East Coast. The eighteenth tropical cyclone and eighteenth named storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, Sandy developed from an elongated tropical wave on 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 to Jamaica. Upon moving north, Sandy reentered water and made its second landfall in Cuba during the early morning hours on the next day, October 25.It then swept into the United States East Coast, prompting public transport closures and evacuation in New York City as well as in other states.It made landfall in New Jersey on Ocotber 29 before making its way slowly northwards bringing with it seawater surging and major flooding of up to 5ft.