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Hurricane Hurricane Milton

"Shear induced decoupling and a sting jet in a cyclone transitioning from tropical to extratropical - a study of Hurricane Milton's trip across Florida."

There you go future meteorology students reading this and needing a research paper topic. Quite a mouthful.
 
A whooping 3+ million customers without power in Florida this morning.
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tornado examiner said:
The only thing about this storm that wasn’t scary…
Is his name.
Milton is such a lame name for this kind of storm if I'm being honest.
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Milton crossed the Florida Peninsula as a hurricane the entire time, and is now off the east coast with sustained winds of 85 MPH.
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A quick update: power back, actually did not lose the tree. It’s just bent at a 45 degree angle in the opposite direction that it was before. Lost a section of my pool enclosure - which was expected because I had the entire cage rescreened last week from hail damage in February (weather gods are laughing). Heading over to my sister’s place with a chain saw, they didn’t fare so well and lost almost every tree on their property.
 
Wind Driven Coconut said:
A quick update: power back, actually did not lose the tree. It’s just bent at a 45 degree angle in the opposite direction that it was before. Lost a section of my pool enclosure - which was expected because I had the entire cage rescreened last week from hail damage in February (weather gods are laughing). Heading over to my sister’s place with a chain saw, they didn’t fare so well and lost almost every tree on their property.
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Glad y'all are okay! Good friends in Melbourne got some really nasty winds, and the backside of Milton kept its punch all the way through the state. Haven't been able to look much for damage photos but the flooding seems pretty serious thus far.
 
notsoencrypted said:
This gauge is right near Tampa General. It looks like they had negative surge last night? https://water.noaa.gov/gauges/HPLF1

Overall, it seems Tampa really got lucky in regards to surge with Milton making landfall south of the bay.
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Yeah, a few folks noted negative surge going on in that area. It appeared to begin around when he made landfall, perhaps intensified by the heavy bands wrapping southwestward into the center of circulation.
 
Reed Timmer just posted 8 minutes of him demonstrating why women live longer than men. Additionally, it looks like Tampa definitely received some substantial wind and water damage.



 
Also something of note, looking at a radar loop of Milton, is that he developed a lop-sided, almost-kinda-sorta extratropical maybe structure as he approached landfall and afterwards. This was something accurately modelled on pretty much all of the tropical models, and they handled Milton well overall, especially HAFS suites, even considering some were struggling keeping up with the insane intensification over the GOM (who wouldn't?)
 
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