'Here We Go Again'Hurricane Milton cat 4-5 heads towards Tampa

[putnam6]

This is dropping and dropping. 910 Mb and 175 MPH wind. The pressure of the Labor Day Hurricane was 892.

I hope for this one to be one of those storms that looks really scary but gets weakened a little, enough to spare the wind damage.

This is low pressure, and like Katrina it's not going to lose it's Cat 5 surge, even making landfall at Cat 3 (as predicted)

Scary is it's going to be between a Katrina and a Labor Day Storm.

At this point it's just sending a general thought of "may everyone have the best luck possible."

Yeah,

Im a huge Hurricane nerd, Camille too was one of the lowest pressures of a Hurricane recorded in the Gulf, and yes they believe the Labor Day Hurricane and the Galveston Hurricane were likely much lower. 

This one is scary the flooding if it hits Tampa Bay at this intensity will be catastrophic. 

Ive been following storms here for the last few years it's a great site with lots of professional weather people

https://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewforum.php?f=59


 Such a well-defined dynamic eye

https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/general/graphi.../mgch.html

Early on the 17th when Camille was centered 250 miles south of Mobile, AL, the Air Force team found a central pressure of 901 mb (26.61 inches) and maximum winds of more than 200mph near the center. That pressure reading was second only to the Labor Day hurricane of 1935 in which a 26.35 inch (892 mb) pressure was recorded in the Florida Keys. Camille and the 1935 Keys storm are the only category 5 hurricanes to hit the U.S. this century. The lowest pressure ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere occurred during Hurricane Gilbert in 1988--888 mb (26.23 lnches). The final death count for the U.S. is listed at 256. This includes the Gulf Coast and the Virginias--143 on the Gulf coast and another 113 from the Virginia floods. The damage in 1990 dollars is estimated at $5.2 billion. Camille was the 5th most costly storm in U.S. history, following Andrew, Hugo, Betsy, and Agnes.

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