Hurricane Hurricane Milton

[Thanksgivingbrown]

202mph winds found. Wow!

 

[JPWX]

Breaking: Milton a category 5 with 160mph with pressure of 925mb

 

[warneagle]

Official upgrade to category 5 is coming.

 

[Atlantic]

According to CycloneWx, extrapolarated is 924.2 MB

 

[Vorticity]

Hurricane Milton Tropical Cyclone Update
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL142024
1055 AM CDT Mon Oct 07 2024

...MILTON RAPIDLY INTENSIFIES INTO A CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE...

Data from an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft indicate
that Milton has strengthened to a category 5 hurricane. The
maximum sustained winds are estimated to be 160 mph (250 km/h) with
higher gusts. Data from the aircraft also indicate that the
minimum pressure has fallen to 925 mb (27.31 inches).


SUMMARY OF 1055 AM CDT...1555 UTC...INFORMATION
-----------------------------------------------
LOCATION...21.7N 91.6W
ABOUT 125 MI...200 KM W OF PROGRESO MEXICO
ABOUT 735 MI...1175 KM SW OF TAMPA FLORIDA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...160 MPH...250 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...ESE OR 110 DEGREES AT 9 MPH...15 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...925 MB...27.31 INCHES

 

[Blountwolf]

Pick your poison, moderate/major effects over a larger area vs catastrophic over a smaller area.

One hopes that holds true in this case, but there is a disturbingly long time for it to EWRC and just be bigger. That it has ramped up this quickly isn't good.

 

[Atlantic]

First time since 2019 with more than one Category 5 in a season (Dorian and Lorenzo in 2019, and now Beryl and Milton in 2024)

 

[Clancy]

 

[Atlantic]

First Gulf Category 5 since Ian in 2022

 

[Jacob]

One hopes that holds true in this case, but there is a disturbingly long time for it to EWRC and just be bigger. That it has ramped up this quickly isn't good.

Also true. Would love to thread the needle and have a big ERC right as the shear ramps up, but that shield of luck we had with land falling storms for 10-12 years seems to be long gone now.

 

[UncleJuJu98]

Doesn't look like it's slowing down either!

 

[Clancy]

Moving nearly due east. Milton has the look of a true killer storm if ever there was one.

 

[warneagle]

Doesn't look like it's slowing down either!

not much to stop it until it goes through an ERC

 

[MortgageMan]

This study from 2010 on a potential cat 5 hitting Tampa Bay with 160 mph winds...wow...
wonder what this cost would be with inflations?

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/..., the Tampa Bay,nearly $250 billion in damage.

 

[Clancy]

Informational brief from TBW.

 

[MMWX]

It won't make landfall in the Yacutan, but the peninsula sure will feel a good bit of it's wrath.

 

[TheSuckZone]

 

[Atlantic]

I pray for Florida having to go through another Major not even 2 weeks after Helene.

 

[Smokedevil]

Really dire language needs used by radio, t.v. and the nws to ensure people leave.
This is UNSURVIVABLE.

 

[warneagle]

160 is almost certainly an underestimate at this point. Yikes.