Hurricane Sandy barging towards new york.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaicans on Tuesday braced for sheets of rain, violent winds and a powerful storm surge as strengthening Tropical Storm Sandy churned south of the Caribbean country's southern coast.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Sandy is expected to become a hurricane as it nears Jamaica on Wednesday. The late season storm is expected to travel from south to north over the island.

Early Tuesday, the storm's outer bands were already drenching parts of the Caribbean country with intermittent showers. Skies were largely overcast over Hispaniola, the Caribbean island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Jamaica's government issued a hurricane warning on Tuesday morning. It has urged people in flood-prone areas to be on alert and advised fishermen on outlying cays to return to the mainland.

Look at the directional shift this biatch took eeeekk

Update on Sandy

i was (and still am) terrible at geography (hence my non-existent sense of direction)


but what are some of the well-known areas of jamaica's southern coast?

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Sandy slammin Yard

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-5754...e-for-hit/

Hurricane Sandy, having blown through Haiti and Cuba and leaving at least 39 dead, continues to barrel north as the lowest category hurricane, just as a wintry storm is moving across the U.S. from the west, and frigid air streams south from Canada.

nd if they meet Tuesday morning around New York or New Jersey, as forecasters predict, they could create a big, wet mess that settles over the nation's most heavily populated corridor and reaches as far west as Ohio.

Storm of century

Superstorm: East Coast Braces for Hurricane Sandy http://abcn.ws/XzGJUU