ATL: MILTON - Post-Tropical - Discussion

[KyleEverett]

Not sure what's up with Tampa's NWS office. The radar had a hiccup and it's local conditions aren't recording right. The weather station at the airport must be down.

[jhpigott]

Sustained TS conditions at PBI - 39, gusting to 60

Up here in Jupiter feels even stronger

[Stormi]

My prayers go out to everyone in this storm’s path. My dad, 2 kids and I am in a non evac zone in Putnam county. Our sunroom was just torn off our trailer and flew over the other side of it. For the first time, I’m scared.

[verruckt]

Pretty gusty here in Melbourne. Guessing gusts in the 80s. Lost a tree in the back yard so far.

No power since about midnight. Internet (fiber) just came back.

Just closed on a house in Fellsmere 3 weeks ago so hope it's doing OK down there

Baro is oddly 979.4 and steadily dropping. I'd have guessed it would be higher with the radar presentation...

[jhpigott]

Just walked outside and saw a number of blue flashes. Guessing power transformers blowing here in NE Palm Beach County.

And I just lost power . . .

[drewschmaltz]

Wow. Hurricane in Orlando is now. Very strong winds. Lots of trees down.

[kevin]

NHC still has this at 75 kt and 977 mb and we're 8 hours after landfall. Was Milton expected to stay this strong for such a long time after landfall? Maybe I was just too focused on the initial landfall location/intensity, but I expected Milton to wind down faster. Does it have to do with the extra-tropical transition NHC was talking about earlier?

[eastcoastFL]

The wind is really kicking right now. We just had a gust of 64. I haven’t seen this much wind since Matthew.

[eastcoastFL]

NHC still has this at 75 kt and 977 mb and we're 8 hours after landfall. Was Milton expected to stay this strong for such a long time after landfall? Maybe I was just too focused on the initial landfall location/intensity, but I expected Milton to wind down faster. Does it have to do with the extra-tropical transition NHC was talking about earlier?

I believe so.

[eastcoastFL]

Looks like Milton is back over water.

[otowntiger]

Pretty good blow for us in Orlando. (Nothing compared to Tampa/St Pete though) Still kicking good, still seeing transformers blowing but we still have power surprisingly. I saw a report of 86 mph at the airport so that would make this the strongest hurricane to hit us since Charlie (105mph in ‘04.)

[otowntiger]

NHC still has this at 75 kt and 977 mb and we're 8 hours after landfall. Was Milton expected to stay this strong for such a long time after landfall? Maybe I was just too focused on the initial landfall location/intensity, but I expected Milton to wind down faster. Does it have to do with the extra-tropical transition NHC was talking about earlier?

I believe so.

yes they have consistently called for it to remain a hurricane all the way across the peninsula.

[eastcoastFL]

Pretty good blow for us in Orlando. (Nothing compared to Tampa/St Pete though) Still kicking good, still seeing transformers blowing but we still have power surprisingly. I saw a report of 86 mph at the airport so that would make this the strongest hurricane to hit us since Charlie (105mph in ‘04.)

As long as you have power you’re doin ok. Glad to hear that. Wind is still howling away here too, I wonder how long it will last.

[eastcoastFL]

MILTON MOVING OFF THE FLORIDA EAST COAST...
...STILL PRODUCING DAMAGING HURRICANE-FORCE WINDS AND HEAVY
RAINFALL IN EAST-CENTRAL FLORIDA...


SUMMARY OF 500 AM EDT...0900 UTC...INFORMATION
----------------------------------------------
LOCATION...28.5N 80.5W
ABOUT 10 MI...15 KM NE OF CAPE CANAVERAL FLORIDA
ABOUT 255 MI...410 KM NW OF GREAT ABACO ISLAND
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...85 MPH...140 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...NE OR 55 DEGREES AT 18 MPH...30 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...976 MB...28.82 INCHES

[eastcoastFL]

This isn’t too far from me

A sustained wind of 61 mph (98 km/h) and a gust to 76
mph (122 km/h) was recently reported at a Weatherstem station on
South Hutchinson Island.

[kassi]

Currently 3,108,542 power outages in Florida.

Source: poweroutage.us

[otowntiger]

Pretty good blow for us in Orlando. (Nothing compared to Tampa/St Pete though) Still kicking good, still seeing transformers blowing but we still have power surprisingly. I saw a report of 86 mph at the airport so that would make this the strongest hurricane to hit us since Charlie (105mph in ‘04.)

As long as you have power you’re doin ok. Glad to hear that. Wind is still howling away here too, I wonder how long it will last.

agreed. No tree on my house and we still have power means we’re doing good at my place!

[Stormlover70]

New port Richey here. Never lost power lines were arching pretty bad. We don't know about our home yet.....

[eastcoastFL]

There’s going to be a ton of destruction all over the state when the sun comes up.

[eastcoastFL]