IMPORTANT Hurricane Milton

Port manatee showing 0 surge. Looking like TB is going to dodge another bullet

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/inundationdb/cidstorm.html?stormname=Milton

 

This tornado hit my niece’s home in Wellington. They’re all okay but they have to evacuate the house. Several homes in the neighborhood have severe damage.

 

It’s good for me that it’s staying south but bad for others. My heart goes out to everyone in the “cone”

 

Good for me too. I'm catching the northern side of the eyewall. The wind and gusts are really picking up.

 

Watch for flying airboats!

 

Pulling a lot of dry air in over there. Hopefully it wraps into the center and helps degrade it faster.

 

800 PM EDT Wed Oct 09 2024

...MILTON CLOSE TO MAKING LANDFALL ALONG THE COAST OF WEST-CENTRAL
FLORIDA...
...LIFE-THREATENING STORM SURGE, DAMAGING WINDS, AND FLOODING RAINS
OCCURRING ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN FLORIDA...


SUMMARY OF 800 PM EDT...0000 UTC...INFORMATION
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LOCATION...27.2N 82.8W
ABOUT 20 MI...30 KM WSW OF SARASOTA FLORIDA
ABOUT 130 MI...205 KM SW OF ORLANDO FLORIDA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...120 MPH...195 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...ENE OR 60 DEGREES AT 15 MPH...24 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...954 MB...28.17 INCHES

 

Feels like Charlie II

 

Tornado in Cocoa Beach damaged several buildings

 

It went through a message board buddy's backyard and took out several trees. They are OK though.

 

Venice inlet, surge at +5

Venice Inlet at Crow's Nest Marina at Venice FL

 

The wind is picking up speed, and I've already had the power flicker off for a split second... enough to cause my cable to re-boot. I expect the worst to hit from 10 to 3 or 4 in the morning... It's a good thing I forced myself to sleep earlier today, knowing that I need to stay vigilant all night long. Be safe, and prayers sent to all in the path of this killer storm.

 

830 PM EDT Wed Oct 09 2024

...EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CATEGORY 3 HURRICANE MILTON MAKES LANDFALL
NEAR SIESTA KEY FLORIDA....
...LIFE-THREATENING STORM SURGE, EXTREME WINDS, AND FLASH FLOODING
OCCURRING OVER THE CENTRAL FLORIDA PENINSULA...

NWS Doppler radar data indicate the eye of Hurricane Milton has
made landfall near Siesta Key in Sarasota County along the west
coast of Florida.

A sustained wind of 78 mph (126 km/h) and a gust of 97 mph (156
km/h) was recently reported at a NOAA C-MAN station in Venice. A
sustained wind of 77 mph (124 km/h) and a gust of 100 mph (161 km/h)
was recently reported at a WeatherFlow station at Egmont Channel. A
sustained wind of 67 mph (107 km/h) and a gust of 83 mph (133 km/h)
was recently reported at a WeatherFlow station at Skyway Fishing
Pier. A sustained wind of 40 mph (64 km/h) and a gust of 73 mph (117
km/h) was recently reported at the Sarasota-Bradenton International
Airport.

The next update will be at 900 PM EDT (0100 UTC).

SUMMARY OF 830 PM EDT...0030 UTC...INFORMATION
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LOCATION...27.3N 82.6W
ABOUT 5 MI...10 KM W OF SARASOTA FLORIDA
ABOUT 115 MI...185 KM SW OF ORLANDO FLORIDA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...120 MPH...205 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...ENE OR 60 DEGREES AT 15 MPH...24 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...954 MB...28.17 INCHES

 

Sarasota 8 feet of surge most I have seen

Walker Creek Near Sarasota FL

 

How so?

Other than the sort of similarish path projected through central FL a lot of the characteristics are the opposite.

Charley was an extremely compact and fast moving storm that tightened on its final approach to Punta Gorda area and didn’t bring much surge outside the immediate areas. This is another one, like some other more recent storms, that’s causing surge all the way down to Naples.

Fortunately that “wind sheer” effect the forecasters predicted came through and the storm veered slightly south and weakened quite a bit, so the loss of life shouldn’t be much. Hard to imagine what would happen if a 185mph storm rolled through just north of Tampa. A 120mph will still cause a lot of property damage, but it shouldn’t be total devastation and infrastructure loss like that worse case scenario storm.

 

Getting hammered by the Storm