Updates on hurricane milton

By Grand Rapids Anonymous
monday, october 7, 2024 at 6:44:00 p.m. edt

There are many examples of cat 5 hurricanes over water, but they rarely (if ever) hit land with that devastation. It’s a temporary level fueled by warm water, but the dynamics of hurricanes makes it unable to stay at a 5. Still, 3 or 4 is bad enough.

--GRA


By Grand Rapids Anonymous
monday, october 7, 2024 at 9:11:00 p.m. edt

I wonder if Trump will carry what’s left of florida. Now they have an excuse for “lost ballots” (which happened to all be for P.T.).

--GRA


hurricane milton expanding in size, as wind speeds drop nominally; tampa bay still ground zero By Grand Rapids Anonymous
tuesday, october 8, 2024 at 2:01:00 p.m. edt

“(weather channel) winds speeds have eased from 180 mph to 155 as category four, hurricane milton, heads toward central florida for an anticipated landfall wednesday night. the size of the hurricane has increased as they normally do at this stage of their development. storm surge danger continues to increase with the size of the storm—moving to the e-ne at 8 mph. “there is potential for an increase in wind speed as barometric pressure lowers from the current reading at 923 mbs. milton may go back to a cat 5 storm (winds over 160 mph), but that’s semantics at this point—150 or 160 mph winds—both are catastrophic. forecasters are holding out hope for dry air, close to the coast, to knock Milton's strength down slightly, but that talk has eased somewhat the last 24 hours.”

GRA: sarasota, tampa—what will be left? As of current forecasts, not much.

--GRA


By Grand Rapids Anonymous
tuesday, october 8, 2024 at 2:15:00 p.m. edt

“fox weather’s Brian Norcross IS still anticipating the “dry air” scenario as Milton nears landfall—and a lessening of winds to 125 mph as Milton comes ashore.”

There’s slight hope for cities south of ft. Myers to escape the brunt of any heavy rain, due to that dry air. the suggestion of the track at 2 pm is milton MAY pass just south of tampa, but north of sarasota—none of it written in stone.

--GRA