2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season Running Thread

That feels a little off. Not like you’re going to watch a different hurricane during commercials.

 

And yet there will be some who stay, believing it’s going to be fine or they’re “far enough inland” or God will protect them or whatever lunatic ideas they have. They’ll be the ones calling for help Wednesday and never found again, or somehow survive and then cry for help.

 

The one I mentioned that stayed in Tampa for Helene has already announced they’re en route to Palm Beach.

 

Yeah, this track is really, really bad. I-4 all the way from St. Pete to Daytona. There is some hope it'll clip the Yucatan and perhaps take a little steam out of it but it's still going to be a hard hitting Cat 3 coming right up the Tampa Bay. Storm surge will finish off whatever the wind hasn't already torn up.

Needing a miracle. But not seeing one.

If it jogs south now, it'll be way too late.

 

Up to 180 mph at the 5 ET update. This is drunk.

Hurricane Milton Public Advisory

 

Once again, good luck to everyone in the storm’s path.

 

897 millibars at the 8 ET update.

 

Holy crap.

 

Three-second gusts 200+ is the very definition of an EF-5 tornado. This is right now at least a 10-mile-wide EF-5 and probably bigger depending on the width of the eyewall.

 

Damn. Stay safe anyone near. Hopefully it loses a lot of power before landfall.