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It’s been difficult, I’m not going to lie to you,
In the end, it matters where it goes because how it affects people, and if you look at the population in Florida, there’s much more population across the central part of the state than there is in the Big Bend,
said hurricane specialist John Cangialosi, reflecting on Helene’s path If this one does hit, it’s going to be flying missiles,
We’ll rebuild, but it is going to be bad,
I highly encourage you to evacuate,
Basically the entire peninsula portion of Florida is under either a watch or a warning... It’s possible that it could hit north of Tampa Bay, it could hit Tampa Bay, it could hit south."
The open-endedness of the Saffir-Simpson scale can lead to underestimation of risk, particularly as this underestimation becomes increasingly problematic in a warming world,
Anthropogenic global warming has significantly increased surface ocean and tropospheric air temperatures in regions where hurricanes form, providing additional heat energy for storm intensification,
We escaped Hurricane Helene without any deaths in this county. I think it’s fair to say this is a different storm,
says Sarasota County Sheriff Kurt Hoffman Who received the information and didn’t give the order to do something about it?”
What you don’t want to do is stay in an area where you have 10, 15 feet of storm surge,
he told Fox News on Monday While fluctuations in intensity are expected, Milton is forecast to remain an extremely dangerous hurricane through landfall in Florida,
I urge Floridians to finalize your storm preparations now; enact your plan. I highly encourage you to evacuate. We are preparing, and I have the State Emergency Response Team preparing, for the largest evacuation that we have seen most likely since 2017 Hurricane Irma."
The Florida Division of Emergency Management's executive director, Kevin Guthrie, said It's just an incredible, incredible, incredible hurricane... this is just horrific. Maximum sustained winds are 160 miles per hour and, um, it is just gaining strength in the Gulf of Mexico."
Another meteorologist choked back tears during an appearance on Florida NBC station WTVJ, with an emotional John Morales telling viewers on Monday The seas are so incredibly, incredibly hot, record hot, as you might imagine,
The health and safety of everyone involved in this event is the highest priority,
said the host network Univision I’m encouraged by the amount of evacuation that’s going on right now."
Keith Turi, a spokesperson for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), said We have to assume this is going to be a monster,
Governor DeSantis said at a press conference on Monday afternoon Unfortunately, some of the Helene victims are in the path of this storm,
This is literally catastrophic, and I can say without any dramatization whatsoever: if you choose to stay in one of those evacuation areas, you are going to die,
Tampa Mayor Jane Castor warned