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The Webcams to Watch as Hurricane Sandy Hits the East Coast

The Webcams to Watch as Hurricane Sandy Hits the East Coast
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Webcams date to an earlier era of the internet: the very first one, in 1991, was pointed at a coffee pot in a computer lab at Cambridge University. But the tradition lives on in various corners of the web, which comes in handy when, say, an enormous storm is barreling toward the East Coast of the United States.

The webcams listed below should provide a good view of Hurricane Sandy’s arrival in New York City, on Long Island, and along the Jersey Shore. If you know of other webcams we should add, email me or send me links on Twitter.

New York City

Long Island

Jersey Shore

Virginia Beach

Maryland

And this isn’t a webcam, but Instacane is a great, intimate view of how people are experiencing Sandy as documented on Instagram. (Thanks to Chris Ackermann for the tip.) It might also get interesting over at NSKYC, which displays the average color of the New York City sky, captured every five minutes.

This post originally appeared on Quartz, an Atlantic partner site. 

Photo: AP/NOAA.

Keywords: New York, webcam, delaware, sandy, New York, Maryland, philadelphia, storm surge

Zach is senior editor of Quartz, where he focuses on new forms of storytelling and leads a group of journalists with backgrounds in data wrangling, programming, and interaction design. He previously worked at The Wall Street Journal, first as a reporter covering education and health, then as the editor of outreach and social media. Before that, he helped launch Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab, covering the media industry. He also currently teaches digital journalism at NYU. All posts »

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