NASA stated that Sandy is a categories 3 hurricane
Hurricanes have a few categories which are as stated below:
The Saffir-Simpson scale ranks hurricanes from Category 1 to Category 5, the most powerful.
Sandy was a Category 3 storm at its peak intensity when it made landfall in Cuba. While it was a Category 2 storm off the coast of the Northeastern United States, the storm became the largest Atlantic hurricane on record (as measured by diameter, with winds spanning 1,100 miles (1,800 km).
On October 25, Sandy hit Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane, and then weakened to a Category 1 hurricane. Most hurricanes only have well-formed and compact eyewalls at category 3 strength or higher. Sandy was not only barely a category 1 hurricane, but Sandy was also experiencing strong wind shear, Sandy was going over ocean typically too cold to form hurricanes, and Sandy had been limping along as a marginal hurricane for several days.
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