Hurricane Milton

Linking the FOX livestream again since the original link a few pages back went offline 10 minutes after I linked it and things are starting to pick up.

Also combining every resource I'm using (which is admittedly 80% links already in this thread) to track shit here for easy access to newer lurkers.
  • Live feed of wind on earth atm. Picks up both on Milton and the 2 (3?) other tropical disturbances currently coalescing around the Southern US.
  • Clear satellite imagery of Milton. Refreshes every 5 minutes, works into nighttime (with the sole asterisk that the hurricane seems to appear smaller than it really is at night). Can be compressed into gifs to be shared. Gives you a warning that it doesn't work well on mobile, but as long as that mobile device is a tablet you should be fine.
  • NHC Hurricane Center. Much easier to look at than the other two. Lists warnings, some basic stats for hurricanes, explanations of disturbances and their approximated chance to develop into tropical storms/hurricanes.
  • Weather.gov. Not really for tracking Milton, just a general-purpose "disaster overseer" thing. Shows you warnings for every state in the US via color coding and lets you get specifics by clicking on separate areas, counties. Kind of ass on mobile so I'd recommend using a PC for this one.
  • windy.com. Shows a series of traffic cameras (and stills of their corresponding areas) across the state so long as you remember to enable them in the righthand sidebar's menu. Looks like it'd be very unsuited to mobile devices. Can also be used for temperature, rain accumulation, etc.
  • Denis Phillips. Meteorologist on Facebook. Seems to be on more hopium than most so he's a refreshing change of pace in times like these. Updates pretty frequently, tracks Milton quite extensively.

Otherwise, I'm heading out for the night. Hoping that Tampa still exists by the time I wake up lol.
 
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Gef Mongoose said:
There have been many people on Twitter/X since last night (and most of them don’t live in Florida), crying out that the $1k+ cost of a ticket is “price gouging”.

I mean, you can personally argue that a plane ticket out of an area like Tampa right now could be a necessity.

But these people tend to not realize that booking a last minute, one way ticket out of Tampa right now is going to be more expensive than usual.

Booking a last minute ticket is always more expensive.

EDIT: It appears as if the airport in Tampa closed at 9am this morning anyways.
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That’s a nice airport too. Very clean
 
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Jimmy Dean Bowl said:
Farming and drinking rarely goes well for me, particularly as I'm tarded to begin with.
Dear oh dear.
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So you realize that the schizophrenic man shitting up the thread is in great danger and needs to shelter in his basement that likely has worse cell service than above ground, right? And he needs to kill power so unfortunately he can't charge his phone or power his router until after the storm is over and the thread is finished.
 
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Gef Mongoose said:
There have been many people on Twitter/X since last night (and most of them don’t live in Florida), crying out that the $1k+ cost of a ticket is “price gouging”.

I mean, you can personally argue that a plane ticket out of an area like Tampa right now could be a necessity.

But these people tend to not realize that booking a last minute, one way ticket out of Tampa right now is going to be more expensive than usual.

Booking a last minute ticket is always more expensive.

EDIT: It appears as if the airport in Tampa closed at 9am this morning anyways.
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I don't understand those people. Why do they want to leave by plane anyway? This is not an immediate catastrophe like nuclear war just having broken out, and you needing to vacate the city stat. Drive, nigga. Drive!

Whoever is affected by airport closures probably can drive, anyway. I wonder about the homeless, the disabled, the elderly - is there any sort of evac proceedings in the US for them? Maybe I just have a non-freedoms mindset, but I'd expect everyone to be forced to evac by now, and the grid shut off to (maybe? am I being retarded?) prevent unnecessary damage such as electrical fires inside buildings that don't fully collapse.
 
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BradCarter said:
So you realize that the schizophrenic man shitting up the thread is in great danger and needs to shelter in his basement that likely has worse cell service than above ground, right? And he needs to kill power so unfortunately he can't charge his phone or power his router until after the storm is over and the thread is finished.
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Absolutely.
I was very wrong and you were right, my apologies good sir.
 
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Anonitolia said:
Linking the FOX livestream again since the original link a few pages back went offline 10 minutes after I linked it and things are starting to pick up.

Also combining every resource I'm using (which is admittedly 80% links already in this thread) to track shit here for easy access to newer lurkers.
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Did power already go out in some areas? Clearwater is pitch black; that is scary as fuck. Godspeed to those that couldn't evacuate in time. Something about seeing the neon lights in that feed in an empty city is eerily calm.

I remember I have a relative that lives in Orlando. I don't know yet if they evacuated up north or they're riding it out.
 
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CFC-12 said:
NHC Update says 915mb and 160mph, still a Cat 5:
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The engineer in me decided to convert the pressure differential to psi and holy fuck. From 915 to standard pressure is 1.42 psi, which doesn't sound like much until you realize how many square inches is in something.
I would guess the eye wall is what you'd want to measure, which was what, 10 miles? That's something like 2 million pounds of force per INCH of height in a storm for something like 1.19 trillion pounds total force. No fucking wonder they make winds that fast.
Of course this is all going to be wildly off and I assumed a lot while knowing nothing about the weather.
Even difference between storm pressure and the "regular" pressure at that altitude and the regular pressure is also really far away, increasing the amount of air in between (and increasing momentum, lowering wind speeds,) yada yada
 
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The Last Stand said:
I remember I have a relative that lives in Orlando. I don't know yet if they evacuated up north or they're riding it out.
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Unless they live in a flood prone area, near a lake, or near a marsh/swamp, no need to leave. Orlando will be fine probably. Only real worries are wind damage, isolated EF0-EF1 tornadoes, rain, and flooding due to rain.
 
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