ATL: MILTON - Post-Tropical - Discussion

[Sunnydays]

I have family members leaving the Tampa area at noon today headed up and over to far NW Fla area. Is there a website anyone can recommend for following traffic and any possible standstills on the interstate systems that may occur due to evacuee traffic? Has anyone heard if Desantis has any ideas of contraflow? I know I75 was at a standstill in some areas last night. Just want to guide them the best I can to get them out of there the quickest way possible.

[HurricaneBelle]

I have family members leaving the Tampa area at noon today headed up and over to far NW Fla area. Is there a website anyone can recommend for following traffic and any possible standstills on the interstate systems that may occur due to evacuee traffic? Has anyone heard if Desantis has any ideas of contraflow? I know I75 was at a standstill in some areas last night. Just want to guide them the best I can to get them out of there the quickest way possible.

US 19 is an alternative, or US 41.

[Sunnydays]

I have family members leaving the Tampa area at noon today headed up and over to far NW Fla area. Is there a website anyone can recommend for following traffic and any possible standstills on the interstate systems that may occur due to evacuee traffic? Has anyone heard if Desantis has any ideas of contraflow? I know I75 was at a standstill in some areas last night. Just want to guide them the best I can to get them out of there the quickest way possible.

US 19 is an alternative, or US 41.

Thank you so much for the info.

[verruckt]

Man, really not looking forward to this one. We've been soaked on the Space Coast for at least 2 weeks now. This recent rain has been nonstop and the ground is absolutely saturated.

Really concerned wind is going to easily knock over a lot of trees over here.

[Jr0d]

I’m still shocked about this storm. 3 days ago it was still thought to be more likely a frontal low than a tropical cyclone. It goes to show we don’t fully understand everything in the tropics.

Now we’re watching a storm intensify in a way to be compared to other storms like Wilma, Michael etc.

I think the low east of Milton...just WSW of Tampa is the frontal low we were expecting. That low has a chance to become classified when it moves east of Florida..

Most if us were looking at the NE Carribean and South Central GoM fir development, NOT the extreme west side of the Gulf of Mexico.

[MarioProtVI]

This is exactly what I was afraid of… went to bed with it at 80 kt around midnight. At the current rate it’s going, this may achieve what Delta 2020 was on its way to doing but got stopped and that’s going sub-900 like the HAFS has been showing.

[syfr]

I have family members leaving the Tampa area at noon today headed up and over to far NW Fla area. Is there a website anyone can recommend for following traffic and any possible standstills on the interstate systems that may occur due to evacuee traffic?

If you don't have the WAZE app on your phone, this would be a good time to install it. It does a good job of reporting real time conditions and providing best routing between two points.

[SouthFLTropics]

I have family members leaving the Tampa area at noon today headed up and over to far NW Fla area. Is there a website anyone can recommend for following traffic and any possible standstills on the interstate systems that may occur due to evacuee traffic? Has anyone heard if Desantis has any ideas of contraflow? I know I75 was at a standstill in some areas last night. Just want to guide them the best I can to get them out of there the quickest way possible.

fl511.com

[Sciencerocks]

 https://x.com/KeviShader/status/1843260486332379215

[Blown Away]

 https://x.com/andretrotter/status/1843262422431522860

I’m thinking the N coast of Yucatan has never taken a direct landfall from a MH? I’m sure crossover but not from a ESE moving storm.

Will the land friction pull it more S?

[GCANE]

Something to watch next week if you're not paying attention to the models.
A system may develop deep in the W Carib and move north possibly impacting S FL around 10/18

[zzzh]

750mb FL 129kt

[Hypercane_Kyle]

Not a very warm eye, but definitely a pinhole if I've ever seen one.

[kevin]

NOAA3 not yet at the center, but measured 129 kt FL winds -> 115 kt at the surface. Milton is now almost certainly a cat 4.

[LandoWill]

We are staying, we are in south pasco. we are 15-20 miles inland and very far north (land o lakes) - although my home on the lake concerns me because of the trees and also i always wondered if "lake surge" could be a thing. We are on the south side of the lake. Right now, the water is about up to our dock surface but isn't high enough to come into our yard and we are about 7-10 feet above that.

[Sunnydays]

Thanks to everyone for their valuable advice. Relaying every piece of info to them now. Appreciate all the help...we really do.

[Travorum]

146kt FL 141SFMR from AF

[zzzh]

FL 146kt, SFMR 141KT !!!

[kevin]

WOW 146 FL!

[GCANE]

Est. Sfc. Wind (30 sec. Avg.) Using Est. Red. Factor

138.1 knots (~ 158.9 mph)
Category Five Hurricane