Hurricane Sandy is strengthening as it moves north, the National Hurricane Center reports. Sandy’s maximum sustained winds are near 85 mph. The Washington Post’s Capital Weather blog reports:
Its pressure is down to 946 mb, making it tied (with the 1938 Long Island hurricane) for the lowest pressure ever recorded north of Cape Hatteras.
Even lower pressure has now been measured, according to the Weather Channel:
After hovering near an already-impressive 950 millibars much of Sunday night, the pressure suddenly dropped to about 942 millibars before 6 a.m. Eastern time.
