The U.S. East has a good chance of getting hit by Hurricane Sandy's gusty winds, heavy rain, flooding and even snow early next week, forecasters predict.

All this might be the result of the "unusual hybrid" of a hurricane and a winter storm coming our way. Satellite images taken on Oct. 24 show Sandy spread across central Caribbean and the image is worrying some meteorologists, with government scientists stating on Wednesday that the storm has a 70 percent chance of hitting the Northeast and mid-Atlantic, according to Yahoo.

Forecasters have stated that Sandy is expected to collide with a winter storm in the West and arctic chills from the North before it reaches the East Coast on Sunday, stretching into the midweek.

One computer model showed the hurricane arriving in the Northeast the day before Halloween, USA Today reported. They also sourced National Hurricane Center spokesperson Dennis Feltgen who said Sandy's first impact on the U.S. will be along the East Coast of Florida this afternoon and evening.

Sandy made its way across eastern Cuba on Thursday as a potential Category 2 storm and caused at least two deaths in the Caribbean, according to Fox News.

It knocked out power to the somewhat 5,500 people living on Cuba's Guantanamo Bay base and as it headed toward the Bahamas and eventually the U.S., a tropical storm watch was issued for the northeastern Florida coast.

The U.S. hurricane center said Sandy is expected to produce rainfall of 6 to 12 inches across Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic and eastern Cuba. On Wednesday, a man in Jamaica was killed by a boulder that crashed into his house and in Haiti, a woman died after she was swept away by a river, Fox reported.

"These rains may produce life-threatening flash floods and mud slides, especially in areas of mountainous terrain," the center said.