ATL: MILTON - Post-Tropical - Discussion

[NDG]

78 mph wind gusts in downtown St Pete airport.

[FLLurker32]

I’m at the southern border of Marion county, half mile north of Sumter/Lake counties. We’re already getting some pretty impressive gusts here for how far away the storm is.

House behind me didn’t secure their grill and it’s already come crashing down.

[SconnieCane]

KTBW has some pixels of 80kt winds at <900' AGL over Bradenton.

[sittingduck]

crazy winds in Venice and if you look at radar it appears like nothing is happening here. What is up with that?

[kassi]

Reports of 11 feet of water. Walker Creek near Sarasota. Reported on Ryan Hall's stream.

[Teban54]

Remember when people were celebrating that Milton had weakened to a Cat 2 (without official confirmation at all) and hoping for a Cat 1 at landfall?

[ColdFusion]

Remember when people were celebrating that Milton had weakened to a Cat 2 (without official confirmation at all) and hoping for a Cat 1 at landfall?

...they were right?

[kevin]

Both FL winds (72+ kt) and SFMR show that hurricane winds extend to at least 28.5N at the moment.

[NDG]

Downtown St Pete airport.

Max Gust:89 mph

[piffer28]

Parents lost power north of Tampa (Land O Lakes). Sister still has power (Wesley Chapel) but its been flickering.

[eastcoastFL]

Remember when people were celebrating that Milton had weakened to a Cat 2 (without official confirmation at all) and hoping for a Cat 1 at landfall?

...they were right?

He’s a cat 3 right now unless I missed a update.

[PCswfl]

Some really nice gusts in Northern Port Charlotte right now. First Hurricane for my 10 year old she was not expecting it and it knocked her over.

[sasha_B]

Remember when people were celebrating that Milton had weakened to a Cat 2 (without official confirmation at all) and hoping for a Cat 1 at landfall?

...they were right?

NHC still says Category 3, flight level winds reduce to 105 knots, central pressure is just over 950 hPa (well within the typical range for a Category 3 hurricane). In what sense were they right?

[Teban54]

Remember when people were celebrating that Milton had weakened to a Cat 2 (without official confirmation at all) and hoping for a Cat 1 at landfall?

...they were right?

Regardless of whether you're trusting FL winds or SFMR winds more, there's still enough support for a major hurricane now, hours after those users "declared" a Cat 2.

[Ubuntwo]

Remember when people were celebrating that Milton had weakened to a Cat 2 (without official confirmation at all) and hoping for a Cat 1 at landfall?

...they were right?

With 118kt FL, 101kt SFMR, and dropsondes finding 106kt avg winds on the north side (demonstrates good mixing in this part of the storm), this is pretty clearly still a category 3 hurricane.

[SconnieCane]

Mike Bettis standing out in a hurricane and they've got the lawn sprinklers going behind him.

[SconnieCane]

91.3kts at 823' AGL on KTBW via GR Level 3.

[eastcoastFL]

392,000 now out of power with major outages on both coasts and Milton still in the gulf

[tronbunny]

crazy winds in Venice and if you look at radar it appears like nothing is happening here. What is up with that?

The dry air that was ingested early this morning. Most of the rain will be north of center.

[Nimbus]

Parents lost power north of Tampa (Land O Lakes). Sister still has power (Wesley Chapel) but its been flickering.

Some nasty gusts in St Pete and over 100,000 without power.
Northern Pinellas county isn't doing to badly feels like 45 mph winds in the squalls with a few gusts, still have power.