Hurricane Milton

[CaliforniaRaisin]

It’s at 927mb now? Am I reading this right? Holy shit someone said earlier in the thread 800 was bad.

You misunderstood. Lower mb's mean worse. Higher mb's mean better. In the most general and basic terms possible to convey this.

But in this case, the difference between 908mb and 927mb just means the hurricane probably isn't going to strengthen anymore tonight. Hurricanes rarely drop below 900mb.

 

[ATI Escapee]

Something I think that is overlooked is that the debris piles from Helene in FL are not going to be cleaned up. The wind is going to turn all the household trash yet to be taken away into deadly projectiles. I mean, look at this pile they cleared from the streets which it isnt possible to dispose of before Milton.



This was a still shot from this video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WR6lihMldv4

In this video there are debris piles at the front of houses in one if the neighborhoods hit by Helene. If Milton doesnt destroy the rest of the buildings around the area Helene hit, the flying debris might just sand everything down to nothing.

On the bright side, might make the livestreams that much more interesting.

 

[DefCon Dumb]

This might sound too basic but keep as clean as possible. Clean and treat even the smallest scratches as though your life depended on it. It might.

There will be all sorts of shit floating in the water, literally and figuratively. Sewage treatment ponds and facilities will be breached, agricultural waste and a fine mix of toxins, including decomposing critters will be everywhere.

A few drops of bleach mixed in a cup of water, hydrogen peroxide, any disinfectants you have are better than nothing.

What can be hard to find until a year or more after a storm like this is the staggering rate of serious infections leading to life altering injuries.

On another safety note, if you have hard hats, bike helmets; anything protective; wear it if you must go outside while winds are still blowing. At the very least, keep them on your kiddo’s heads.

Small children are going to be terrified of different things depending on their age and understanding. They’ll feel as helpless as we adults do.

Give them each a small, age appropriate ‘responsibility’, remind them often you’re still there and expect a lot of changed behaviour from them in the aftermath.

It’s okay to admit you’re scared or nervous to older kids. Lying to them isn’t going to cut it.

 

[Egregore]

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Florida Man problems require Florida Man solutions. It's just crazy enough to actually work.

 

[PointOfNoReturnPoint]

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This needs to work so badly, this is not just florida its fucking genius.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

lmao wtf is this meme prediction

I like the ones where the storm apparently teleports to cuba and heads north. but yeah iirc 25 is a West Palm station so they're just throwing shit at the wall to entertain people, they aren't getting anything

I don’t think I’ve seen any inquiring minds ask about the alligators yet. How big of a potential issue will they be with 5+ feet of standing water everywhere in Western/Central Florida (for at least a few weeks) after they get flung all over the place like 150mph missiles with armored hides and teeth?

ETA this doesn’t sound good, if they survive the storm’s landfall. View attachment 6501183

ehh, gators are gators
you REALLY have to fuck up to piss off a gator
their basic MO since before dinosaurs walked the Earth up through today is "look like a log, wait for something to step on you, then drown kill and eat it, not necessarily in that order"
stay out of water, and if you see one walk deliberately away slowly and steadily at a right angle or so
gators are hard wired "if it runs from me, it must be something I can kill, therefore I should chase and kill it"

 

[God's drunkest driver]

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That cannot be fucking right.

Why not? It's a dropsonde reading not a sustained wind reading. Could be a transient gust.

 

[Day of the Cope]

Milton isn't a name that inspires fear, I gotta say.

 

[Sithis]

I don’t think I’ve seen any inquiring minds ask about the alligators yet. How big of a potential issue will they be with 5+ feet of standing water everywhere in Western/Central Florida (for at least a few weeks) after they get flung all over the place like 150mph missiles with armored hides and teeth?

ETA this doesn’t sound good, if they survive the storm’s landfall. View attachment 6501183

I'd be more concerned about the sharks, rays and fire coral that will get washed in with the surge. Gators will snatch your dog if you walk by a pond but that's about as active as they like to get if given the chance, and they're not going to want to hang out around all the commotion that'll be going on with the storm. Bull sharks can and do get transported from one body of water to another with these storms so don't be surprised if your local golf course has a fin suddenly start showing up in the water hazards.

 

[TooManyKittens]

If it is right he's the strongest Atlantic hurricane on record, or at least tied with Allen. Can't go much faster then 160 knots. It's probably not right

Apparently it is fate for you to be the knowledgeable kiwi in my threads as of late (along with anOminous and useful mistake)... so apologies in advance.

The drop an hour earlier in the ne eyewall had slightly less high wind speeds but I dont know what the fuck im looking at in these charts. Looking at the other drop (#3 I think).. could this be right?

Or no, that's a big difference in windspeed/both are wrong/im asking the wrong questions

 

[N Space]

Hurricanes in the Gulf have little if anything to do with the average ocean temperature being 2 degrees higher then 100 years ago.

Isn't the heat of the ocean water what fuels the hurricane? If so, I don't see how a 2 degree increase in temperature wouldn't impact hurricane severity/frequency.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

I have a family member in one of the predicted landfall counties and, despite strongly encouraging this person to leave, this person has opted to stay. The emergency management website for the county says this person is outside any evacuation or flood zone. My question is: are these websites worth a damn, or should I call this person again?

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

I'd be more concerned about the sharks, rays and fire coral that will get washed in with the surge. Gators will snatch your dog if you walk by a pond but that's about as active as they like to get if given the chance, and they're not going to want to hang out around all the commotion that'll be going on with the storm. Bull sharks can and do get transported from one body of water to another with these storms so don't be surprised if your local golf course has a fin suddenly start showing up in the water hazards.

after the storm there's a surge in dolphin herpes when a bunch of them got thrown in the middle of The Villages

 

[PyrrhicRustle]

I don’t think I’ve seen any inquiring minds ask about the alligators yet. How big of a potential issue will they be with 5+ feet of standing water everywhere in Western/Central Florida (for at least a few weeks) after they get flung all over the place like 150mph missiles with armored hides and teeth?

ETA this doesn’t sound good, if they survive the storm’s landfall. View attachment 6501183

Gators aren’t that much of a problem if you’re not an idiot, but I’m sure a few are going to have good eats from people staying behind when they shouldn’t have and winding up floating face down in a lake.

 

[Jimmy Dean Bowl]

At the last set of radar photos someone commented that it looks like there is possibly another ERC underway, as it looked like another wall was forming around the eye.
Does this increase in pressure support this?

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

I kinda think these are manufactured hurricanes. Is that possible with cloud seeding?

They mostly come at night. Mostly.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

WHAT IF INSTEAD OF HURRICANE MILTON IT WAS HURRICANE MELTON (AS IN TAMPA'S OWN PATRICK MELTON)

 

[Dr. Ricearoni]

I'm not really joking here; I was a tech at Nora or some weather seeding facility in colorado. they fucked with weather a ton

Believe it or not making the clouds in a swirly shape doesn't make a hurricane

 

[Mix]

I have a family member in one of the predicted landfall counties and, despite strongly encouraging this person to leave, this person has opted to stay. The emergency management website for the county says this person is outside any evacuation or flood zone. My question is: are these websites worth a damn, or should I call this person again?

just tell the fucktard to throw up some boards on the windows, park on high grounds, and so on. put a bunch of shit by the garage like blakets by the doors and shit off the ground. where is he?

 

[TooManyKittens]

I have a family member in one of the predicted landfall counties and, despite strongly encouraging this person to leave, this person has opted to stay. The emergency management website for the county says this person is outside any evacuation or flood zone. My question is: are these websites worth a damn, or should I call this person again?

The county will know its own flood zone areas. They generally will keep them up to date for the insurance companies too (follow the money. Its not altruism). A good chunk of the complete wash out buildings in western NC were along the river in known flood zones. Not all, by a long shot. But Florida doesn't have landslides down a mountain to contend with.

As for the evacuation area borders, no idea.