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Hurricane #Milton Advisory 10: Milton Continuing to Rapidly Intensify. Forecast to Become a Category 5 Hurricane. http://hurricanes.gov

BREAKING: Hurricane Milton is expected to strengthen to a Category 5 Hurricane later today. The powerful Hurricane is expected to hit the Gulf Coast of Florida Wednesday evening as a Category 3 Hurricane. Hillsborough County and Sarasota County issued a mandatory evacuation for Evacuation Zones A and B. Tampa Bay International Airport has announced they will be suspending “all commercial and cargo operations” at 9 AM Tuesday and will remain "closed to the public until it can assess any damage after the storm."

(10-07-2024, 04:11 PM)IdeomotorPrisoner Wrote: 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."

Quote: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.

(10-07-2024, 04:11 PM)IdeomotorPrisoner Wrote: This low is dropping and dropping. 910 Mb and 175 MPH 905 Mb and 180 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."

(10-07-2024, 10:38 PM)pianopraze Wrote: Sold my sail boat when we went to Philippines a few years ago. Will buy another in next year or two.

i always watch every hurricane. This one is going to hit both Labelle and merrit island, two places where I kept mine.  

Grew up in Titusville, this is first time in my over half century life Titusville is going to get hit.

if I had a sailboat right now I’d be heading south through Caribbean.

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The latest pass by Hurricane Hunters through Category 5 Hurricane Milton in the Gulf of Mexico, shows the Storm beginning to Restrengthen again after Slightly Weakening last night; with it expected to make Landfall tomorrow near Tampa Bay, Florida as a Extremely Life-Threatening Category 4 Hurricane.

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Turns out Floridians are desperate, but not THAT desperate! Bud Lights remain completely untouched