Sandy has been retired from the official list of Atlantic Basin tropical cyclone names by the World Meteorological Organization’s hurricane committee because of the extreme impacts it caused from Jamaica and Cuba to the Mid-Atlantic United States in October 2012.
![An overflight shows some of the damage that Hurricane Sandy caused when it hit the east coast at the end of October, 2012. (Image credit: US Air Force) An overflight shows some of the damage that Hurricane Sandy caused when it hit the east coast at the end of October, 2012.](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_width_1275/public/legacy/image/2019/Jun/Hurricane.Sandy_.jpg?itok=nbYuHFXv)
An overflight shows some of the damage that Hurricane Sandy caused when it hit the east coast at the end of October, 2012. (Image credit: US Air Force)