The worst of the life-threatening conditions along the west coast of Florida, in terms of storm surge and destructive winds, will likely be from Wednesday evening into the early morning hours of Thursday,
That storm surge is going to start at 10 or 15 feet near the coastline and then it's going to travel,
If you're on the southern part of this storm, you are going to get storm surge,
We've seen a lot of questions about, 'well I live on a creek,' or 'I live on a river, is it really going to get 10 to 15 feet where I live?,'
This is your last chance if you need to get to a shelter,
Just know that if you get 10 feet of storm surge, you can't just hunker down with that,
We do not want you staying in your home if you're anywhere near a body of water,
If you don't leave, you're on your own."
This is going to be an intense disaster for Sarasota County,
Nobody up here can save your life if you put yourself in harm's way."
The roads and the interstates, they are flowing,
The airport, in collaboration with federal and airline partners, agreed to cease commercial operations to prevent aircraft from operating under unsafe weather conditions for landings and take-offs,
Take a pen and write your name and social security number on your leg so that we have a contact if we find you
Numerical models in the past five years or so have improved to resolve hurricanes and typhoons at global scales and they do agree that the intensification of hurricanes (more hurricanes of strength 4 or 5) and typhoons, and a tendency for depression to turn more easily into hurricanes is the result of climate change,
Hurricane winds grab people's attention, but flooding is probably the biggest concern with Milton. Winds of 150mph can easily destroy buildings and cause injuries and fatalities if people are caught out in the open by flying debris,
There have only been five other years (since 1950) in which there were more than one Category 5 hurricane in a single season; 1961 (2), 2005 (4), 2007 (2), 2017 (2), and most recently 2019 (2),
You can get them on a thunderstorm cell up to 200 miles from the centre of the hurricane."
We could have tornadoes within a hurricane as it crosses land, you could have super tornadoes and the hurricane at the same time. In exactly the same way as hurricanes, there's a league table."
Even a category three is considered to be major. Those are the statuses in terms of the wind. The big thing is the western side of Florida you're going to expect a tidal surge with waves estimated to be 10-15 feet high. If you're stood on the beach two or three times above your head, you won't survive."
If you've got a category 5 super tornado, you have gusts of over 200mph. I think what will happen is there'll either be zero or a few scattered around."