Milton rapidly intensified to a Category 5 hurricane late Monday morning.
Within hours, Milton strengthened to a Category 2, then a Category 3, then a Category 4 and finally a Category 5.
Milton now ranks as the third-greatest 24-hour wind speed intensification for a hurricane in the Atlantic Basin. (Records are based on data since the satellite era began in the 1960s.)
This storm has reached 180mph at its peak. Have you ever braced wind at that speed? I’ve ridden at 120mph on my motorcycle (at a drag strip). The wind, even with a full face helmet and visor, was so extreme that it was hard to hold on and my ears were ringing afterward despite having earplugs in. This insanity corresponds to a few seconds of a category 3 hurricane. This hurricane’s winds are like that felt by squids on literbikes doing top speed runs.
To add to what you’ve said: if you’ve ever hit a bug (or anything else) at those speeds you notice it. A junebug will leave a fairly decent bruise on exposed skin, and for comparison a paintball out of a marker travels about 190 mph.
Imagine the random far more substantial debris flying around during a hurricane near those speeds.
Yeah, I def prefer octopuses on gallonbikes, imperial cephalopods with 8 arms only FTW!
…i’ve done a buck fourty-five in my convertible with the top down: it’s LOUD…at one fifty-five, pushing with all two hundred horsepower, my car can’t make any further headway against the wind and buildings are a lot less aerodynamically efficient…
…i’ve ridden out a half-dozen hurricanes but category fives are get-out-of-town devastating…
Florida gonna look like Fallout4 post Hurricane Milton and Hurricane season ain’t even over…
What. The. Fuck.
I’m watching the live stream from WFLA, which is a St. Petersburg station. He’s a photo of a bridge leaving the area right now (just after noon on Tuesday Florida time.)
Either most people with cars have evacuated or there are a lot of people who may learn the last lesson of their lives. I hope the former.
Also, the eye apparently will pass right over Cape Canaveral.
They’ve been evacuating all day, i was watching streams with roads bumper to bumper at 8am today
You would think religious people would say this is a sign. They probably do but apply it in the wrong direction.
just makes them delve into conspiracy thinking even more
In the 2000’s, religious people would blame hurricanes on things like gay marriage.
And the radio waves were just full of their bloviating
It turns out it is a sign of Dems having weather control devices.
Of all the gay lasers, the purple ones and those of higher frequency like UV and EUV have the most photonic power.
Yeah, they think it’s a sign that “too many gays” are now in Florida, and God has to punish the sodomites.
Trying to get Florida Republicans to do any amount of introspection would be like trying to teach an ant to play basketball.
It’s only a sign when it hits blue states. In red states it’s HAARP or the Jewish space lasers.
Or it was a test and anyone who didn’t survive wasn’t faithful enough.
Did Helene not eradicate all the idiots?
How are there more?
Graghhhhhh.
Florida… Give him back his stapler, like right now.
And get him some cake. Because last time he didn’t get a piece of cake.
Ok, I, I set the state on fire.
I was told I could inundate Tampa at a reasonable volume from 9 to 11
“Climate change isn’t real”
Don’t look up
Within hours, Milton strengthened to a Category 2, then a Category 3, then a Category 4 and finally a Category 5.
Someone had a word quota to fill.
Probably submitted the article with 1.1 line spacing and 13 point font
Hurricanes don’t like it when you ban books. Prayin for you, florida man.
A lot of whats about to happen to Florida in the coming months will be self inflicted because of their politics.
florida is like 55% republican. I’d wager many know how dumb it is
NOAA changed Milton’s heading on Hurricanes.gov to plead with people to listen to evacuation orders.
We’ll all be very happy to feel silly if this doesn’t go the way it looks like it’s going to go. But please for the love of humanity get out of the way of this thing.
I’ve lived in the Tampa Bay area my entire life, never evacuated before, and I left last night. Fuck Milton. Not worth riding this one out.
I was listening to a live stream with a couple meteorologists explaining everything. they were fairly jovial and laid back seeming guys but at one point, one of them got a deadly serious tone to his voice and started talking about how this one can’t be rode out, can’t be survived.
My friend lives in Florida and has not, nor his words “will ever” evacuate for a “stupid hurricane.” I’ll give you one guess who he’s voting for.
That’s one way for Florida to go blue
The game I almost never lose!
oh fuck me. Well I lost a different game after typing that.
I just lost too…jerk!
Why evacuate? Just write your name, DoB, and SSN on our arms and legs, and use a waterproof sharpie for that. Just in case, you know?
I mean I’d rather have you, not your pieces.
Did you mean https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ ? Your URL doesn’t seem to work.
i don’t understand how to use this website. where do i click on to see who needs to get out
If your address has “FL” in it, you should evacuate.
You need to go to FloridaDisaster.org
I’m not sure NOA is responsible for evacuation orders, IIRC they advise state and local governments on who should evacuate and it’s up to the local government to coordinate and reach out to their populations.
I need only three things:
- Where is the hurricane
- What path did it already take
- How strong / fast is it
Bonus: Prediction path it will take.
I was thinking this would be very easy to visualize. From such important data sources you’d expect more.
That’s the same site yeah. Mine left an s off, I’ll go fix it.
Don’t hurricanes normally go the other way? I thought they normally blow towards the southwest?
Not since Democrats got behind the controls. /S
Gulf hurricanes can do this, and they can become some of the strongest hurricanes very quickly. One or two of the massive storms in 2005 were gulf hurricanes
I’m gonna tell myself that this is finally bad enough to spur widespread action on global warming as a way of feeling better about it and you can all preemptively shut up with your reality checks.
In Germany more than 200 people died in a severe flooding in 2021. Just 2 month prior the conservative party CDU removed flood protection laws in one of the states most affected. In one of the towns completely destroyed they were again voted strongest just a few months later.
I’m gonna tell myself that this is finally bad enough to spur widespread action on global warming
I, too, want to believe that humans are capable for caring enough about themselves, each other, and their descendants in order to put in place measures to make the world better for everyone.
Tbh I’ve learned a lot about how thermal energy affects these storms and I gotta say, the only people who are gonna be living in Florida 20 years from now are people who live in submarines.
We ought to be executing oil company CEOs for treason.
Are you doing okay? I feel kind of the same way I think.
Currently in my house in Florida, where I am looks to be not on the direct path but not completely free. Hurricanes can move a lot, especially when they get on land and staet losing speed.
Once we evacuated 5 hours in a car with all our animals (at the time 2 big sweaty dogs) in a car that wasnt even the size of a minivan. We packed everything we needed just in case. Once we got inside the hotel we booked we took a ~2 hour nap and upon checking the storm again it had moved to come right to where the hotel is. We then had to drive 5 hours BACK home where we began.
Anyhoo, wish us luck! I don’t wanna evacuate with 4 cats and a large dog haha
UPDATE: 5:30 10/8
I got 5+ ‘amber alerts’ today. They just wouldn’t stop haha
Good luck to you and your family. I don’t know anyone in Florida, so I will be thinking of you as a proxy for all the people I am concerned for in the potential path of this hurricane.
I wish you luck trifling toad🤞 Escaping a situation with just people is difficult, with additional animals makes it so much more stressful. Especially cats since they have to be put in a crate and need a litter box etc.
Hopefully it’ll take out that twat with the giant forehead
So is trump at Mar a Lego right now standing proudly on the front lawn for this? Is he staying there, “standing his ground” against the “climate hoax”?
Or is he hiding somewhere else safe, with an excuse, like a coward who’s actually afraid of climate change?
'Just turn the green energy wind turbines around and blow the hurricane away, or just shoot at it! ’
Trump: “Just nuke it!”
Climate change is the biggest existential threat we face. One fan be afraid of hurricanes and also be dumb enough to not believe in climate change.
These are two equally obvious statements. The latter probably even more so.
There’s no need to try and out stupid them.
Well that’s on the East Coast so. Not really a big deal. But I know that’s not your point
Inshallah it will be a big deal on the East coast
