Abdullah wrote:Milton position tracking and interpolation
Recorded positions:
02:00 AM — 23.8N, 86.0W
05:00 AM — 24.5N, 85.4W (+0.7N, -0.6W) (17 mph)
08:00 AM — 25.0N, 84.8W (+0.5N, -0.6W) (15 mph)
11:00 AM — 25.8N, 84.3W (+0.8N, -0.5W) (18 mph)
02:00 PM — 26.3N, 84.0W (+0.5N, -0.3W) (11 mph)
05:00 PM — 26.9N, 83.4W (+0.6N, -0.6W) (16 mph)
Projected position forecasted at the 11 AM advisory (including interpolations, marked in grey)
08:00 PM — 27.3N, 82.9W (+0.4N, -0.5W) (12 mph)
11:00 PM — 27.7N, 82.4W (+0.4N, -0.5W) (12 mph)
02:00 AM — 28.0N, 81.8W (+0.3N, -0.6W) (12 mph)
The projection is for Milton to slow down moderately and start angling to the West over the next few hours, and at 9:20 PM tonight it will landfall at 27.5N, 84.7W, at Bradenton Beach. This location is the southern portion of Siesta Key, which is 37 miles to the south-southwest of Tampa and 13 miles to the northwest of Sarasota.
The track forecast has been shifted north by 20 to 30 miles, reminiscent of the 20 to 30 miles to the northwest Milton tracked ahead of its forecast.
Hate to correct you sir, but as a native I must.
Siesta Key is a good 20 miles south of Bradenton Beach.
Bradenton Beach is just south of Holmes Beach and Anna Maria Island. Odds are per the modeling I've been following the storm will cross north of that area closer to Anna Maria and into Tampa Bay, Palmetto, and going inland around Ruskin.