W….T….F…… to put this into comparison, the sustained winds are a constant EF4 category tornado speed with gusts of EF5+.if you are in Florida I strongly urge you to leave.
Weather modification at its best.
FIRST!!! To my friends who say they are not evacuating, I truly wish you the best and I pray for you and your family. That is absolutely no judgement on my part. ZERO. I love you all and I just want you all safe!!!
As for any comments on here that have made this political, neither side reflects my thoughts or feelings. I AM NOT A DEMOCRAT OR A REPUBLICAN. I am Libertarian !!!! Both wings come from the same bird and both wings took 3/4 of my life from me and my entire page is exposing the truth. The government doesn’t care about you.
They don’t care if you are sick. They don’t care if you are personally dying of an illness that actually has a root cause but western medicine fails to address the root causes.
The Biden Administration only gives you $750 and doesn’t help you in your time of need with money nor food, nor bills. Not only do they not help you during this time of need when your family is finding ways to scrape money together to go to the store and buy food, but they have their hand out collecting property taxes and saying you will go to jail if you don’t pay. THEREBY, Stop being a slave of the OLIGARCHY!!! – Search (bing.com)
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Category 3 Hurricanes Hit This Specific Place More Than Anywhere Else (msn.com)
Likely, not surprisingly, 29 of the 50 places on the list are in Florida, though several are part of Miami-Dade County. This is the case with other communities on the list, which tend to be in the same general geographical area. Following Florida, nine of the places on the list are in Texas, eight are in Louisiana, and four are in Mississippi.
Areas in Texas are often slammed with hurricanes. Some cities nationwide tend to experience many more hurricanes than others, and some also experience more powerful ones than others. To determine the cities with the most Category 3 and above hurricanes, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed data on historical hurricane tracks from 1842 to 2022 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, ranking census places by the number of such hurricanes within their boundaries.
Hurricanes are the most damaging natural disasters in the United States, responsible for trillions of dollars in damages and thousands of lives. While destruction is the worst when hurricanes land, they can go far inland or cause considerable damage in their aftermath, such as tropical storms. Knowing an area’s propensity to be in the path of such destructive forces is good.
Climate change has made extremely active Atlantic hurricane seasons much more likely than they were in the 1980s. Since March 2023, average sea surface temperatures around the world have hit record-shattering highs, giving storms like Milton and Helene an extra boost before they make landfall.
“Milton is the 3rd Atlantic storm to become a major hurricane since September 26 (Helene, Kirk),” Philip Klotzbach, a meteorologist at Colorado State University, wrote on X. “This is the most on record for the Atlantic between September 26 – October 7, breaking the old record of 2 set in 1893, 1941 and 1959.”
The worst hurricanes to ever hit Florida include1 2 3 4 5:
- Lake Okeechobee Hurricane (1928): A strong Category 4 storm that cost over 4,078 lives, making it the second most deadly hurricane in U.S. history.
- Hurricane Andrew (1992): Caused $30 billion in damage and claimed 26 lives directly in southern Florida.
- Hurricane Katrina (2005): While most of its damage was in New Orleans, it remains the deadliest and most expensive hurricane in modern U.S. history.
- Helene (2024): The deadliest tropical cyclone to strike the mainland United States since 2005.
- Other costly hurricanes: Florida Keys Hurricane (1919), Hurricane Charley (2004), Hurricane Wilma (2005), and Hurricane Michael (2018).
List of United States Hurricanes – Wikipedia
4 Florida Towns That Are Proving to Be Hurricane-Proof | Watch (msn.com)
As hurricanes intensify, some Florida towns are fighting back with innovative designs. Storms may have met their match in communities strengthened by new technology and smart planning. Earth temperature through the decades (bing.com)
Chris Kissell • October 7, 2024
Hurricane Helene’s path of destruction across the eastern U.S. is another reminder of how tropical tempests can uproot homes — and lives — overnight. As the U.S. population has grown and more people have chosen to live in harm’s way, larger numbers of homeowners face the threat of destructive storms.
Unfortunately, many communities are not up to the task of surviving hurricane-force winds. But that is not true everywhere. A handful of developments specifically built to withstand hurricanes appear to be performing splendidly. Here are some Florida towns that are proving to be hurricane-proof.
Cortez
As Hurricane Helene whipped through northern Florida.
The lights stayed on — and homes remained dry — in the Hunters Point neighborhood of the town of Cortez. Since homeowners began moving into the new community in 2002, Hunters Point has stared down three hurricanes and hasn’t blinked.
Built to survive a Category 5 storm, the homes in the Gulf Coast community feature steel straps that connect each floor together. The first floor is made of concrete, thicker lumber is used in framing and roofs are made of steel.
The homes themselves sit in a flood zone, but the first floor of each sits 16 feet off the ground. As soon as the power went out during Helene, homes in Hunters Point automatically switched to battery power. Water filled a retention system pond 7 feet deep, helping to keep floodwaters away from the community’s homes.
Babcock Ranch
At Babcock Ranch, Hurricane Ian met its match.
Like Helene, Hurricane Ian was a Category 4 storm when it crashed into southwest Florida in 2022. It was one of the state’s deadliest and costliest storms, but the 5,000 residents of Babcock Ranch emerged almost completely unscathed.
The development was the first built in Florida specifically to survive hurricanes. A few miles inland from Fort Myers, the community runs almost exclusively on solar energy, and stormwater-control features surround the homes. Tough-as-nails hardened infrastructure also presents a formidable front to incoming storms.
During Ian, nobody in Babcock Ranch lost their power, suffered flooding or lost access to clean water. More importantly, there were no casualties in the development.
Las Olas Isles
When a strong hurricane moves in, people can quickly lose their power.
It’s not unusual in Florida for millions of residents to see their homes go dark in a storm. Hurricane Helene was a monster storm that caused folks living all across the state to lose power. But in Fort Lauderdale, on the Atlantic coast, residents of the community of Las Olas Isles were secure in the knowledge that they were likely to remain powered up despite the storm’s fury.
That is because homeowners in Las Olas Isles had fought to get their utility lines buried. Soon, power poles made way for transformer boxes on the ground. A hurricane can huff and puff, but there are no power lines to blow down in Las Olas Isles.
The cost of making the change was high: One resident estimated that if you spread out the expense over 30 years, each homeowner would pay $1,700 per year over that span. But at least 90% of homeowners in Las Olas Isles voted in favor of the initiative.
Medley
Hurricane Ian was such a fierce storm that about 2.7 million Floridians lost power in its wake. But lights continued to burn brightly in the 37 homes in the Medley at Southshore Bay community in Wimauma, a suburb of Tampa on the state’s west coast.
In Medley, a backup microgrid system has the ability to power homes. A network of batteries in the homes stores solar power gathered from panels on rooftops.
When Ian struck, homes quickly disconnected from the main power grid and turned to their batteries. The microgrid system — dubbed BlockEnergy and developed by Emera Technologies — is part of a pilot project that could eventually spread to other communities.
UPDATE: Hurricane Milton Threatens Florida’s West Coast: Expected Landfall Wednesday Night (msn.com)
Love the model data on your http://TropicalTidbits.com website
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President Biden has canceled his trip to Germany and Africa as Hurricane Milton threatens the west coast of Florida with catastrophic storm surges and winds. CBS News has the latest on the Category 4 storm. In pictures: Monster Hurricane Milton takes aim at Florida’s battered Gulf Coast (msn.com)
The 06z 08 Oct 2024 ECMWF ensemble model tracks for 
MILTON
Milton Update: Florida braces for monster hurricane and ‘deadly storm surge’ | Watch
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Bryan Norcross: Plan to be where you’ll ride out the storm by Wednesday morning | Watch (msn.com)
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Clearwater couple say they will ‘wait it out’ in their home as Milton nears | Watch (msn.com)
I’m on the East Coast in Daytona Beach- about 3/4 miles west of Intercoastal Waterway (Halifax River), which if you cross, you’ll be on the Beachside. How bad do you anticipate the backend being?
The one thing I fear is that the current ERC does cycle out before Miltie traverses the Loop Current Eddy of hot water, because that could possibly give him enough oomph on the post-ERC restrengthening to delay the inevitable weakening due to the westerly shear and dry air before final approach to land.
Could mean the difference between Tampa Bay getting Cat 1 and Cat 3 winds.
The eye of a hurricane always travels around the central periphery of a counterclockwise current. If it’s path is between both clockwise and counterclockwise currents, the counterclockwise current shall always prevail and steer regardless of the other current being superior.
I want to make something EXTREMELY clear:
Toss out the “what category will it be at landfall?” right now. Throw it out. Why? Categories are for WIND not SURGE. You want a category that you can relate to? Assume the surge will inflict catastrophic damage; AKA CAT 5 damage. Do not wait and see if it weakens below some threshold that makes you more comfortable. The storm surge will be unlike anything Floridians have ever seen. And….it will be at night. Category: NIGHTMARE.
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Agreed. Katrina (supposedly) weakened from a Cat 5 to a Cat 3 at landfall. Surge was still Cat 5 level. Parents house had 26 feet of water, completely submerged. (Water level is confirmed by the water line on the 2-story house next door.) What was the elevation of the property below sea level before the levees failed? 5 feet below sea level.
So the water was 21 feet higher than sea level. 21 ft surge in St Bernard Parish which is east of New Orleans. The eastern end of the parish is on the water. They were on the western end, within levees but the surge overtopped the levees. The water was still 26 feet deep. I am quite aware that the levees in NOLA broke. The levees in St Bernard on the MRGO were overtopped. St Bernard and the 9th ward flooded way before the rest of the city.
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Milton’s storm surge is a threat that could be devastating far beyond the Tampa Bay region (msn.com)
Tampa is located in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States. The average elevation of Tampa is 36 ft, with a minimum elevation of -10 ft and a maximum elevation of 148 ft1. The latitude of Tampa is 27.950575, and the elevation is 6m / 20feet2.
The surge is going to be 15 feet.
Tens of thousands of people and homes were affected. On the other hand, a Cat 5 hitting land in Tampa and then sliding up through Orlando would directly affect upwards of six million people. Hope for a Cat 3. If there’s no ocean or large bodies of water in the middle of the state then what are we supposed to pay attention to? You people only care about coastal destruction. It’s annoying as hell for us who don’t live there.
National Hurricane Center · @NHC_Atlantic
Hurricane #Milton Advisory 14A: Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters Find That Milton’S Intensity Has Rebounded. Today is the Last Full Day For Florida Residents to Get Their Families and Homes Ready and Evacuate If Told to Do So. http://hurricanes.gov
It’s worth mentioning too that #Milton has a slight chance to do (something else) unprecedented here. We have yet to observe an Atlantic hurricane w/ a sub-900mb peak re-intensify and see its central pressure fall back below 900mb a 2nd time. The closest we came to this was Hurricane Allen (1980) when it reached 899mb at peak then re-intensified back into a 909mb 155 kt category 5 hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Hurricane Milton: Officials warn of life-threatening situation – Search (bing.com)
As Hurricane Milton strengthens into a Category 4 storm, officials are urging Florida residents to evacuate immediately, with the mayor of Tampa issuing a dire warning: “if you remain there, you could die.” NBC’s Tom Llamas reports for TODAY.
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