 About five days before landfall, the ECMWF, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), and Navy Operational Global Prediction System (NOGAPS) models predicted Sandy would strike the Delmarva Peninsula, while the American Global Forecast System (GFS) model anticipated the hurricane would move out to sea; the remaining models were between the two scenarios.By four days before landfall, the NHC was forecasting a landfall on New Jersey, as were most of the computer models.In general, the European computer models performed better than the United States ones, due to the European models' higher resolution.