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The ocean heat content is at the highest level on record for this time of year in the gulf, despite the recent passage of Helene,
AccuWeather lead hurricane forecaster Alex DaSilva told the media on Monday This move was made in coordination with our partners. We will resume commercial operations as soon as it is safe,
You do not want to wait for storm surge to start occurring before you take action,
AccuWeather chief meteorologist Jon Porter said in a statement to the media on Monday We are very concerned that Hurricane Milton could become one of the most damaging and costliest storms that Florida has ever seen,
SeaWorld Orlando remains OPEN. We continue to monitor conditions and the path of Hurricane Milton,
Anybody and everybody, neighbors helping neighbors, just to get that household debris out of the way so that Milton doesn't pick it up and use it as a weapon,
This is literally a difference between life and death,
Tampa has long been regarded as the most vulnerable metropolitan area in the United States to storm surge flooding
Dr Steven Godby, an expert in natural hazards in Nottingham Trent University’s School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences, said I cannot believe the extent of this hurricane, bear in mind this is our second hurricane during this holiday and apparently [Hurricane] Milton is meant to hit a lot worse than [Hurricane] Helene".
Speaking on TikTok, British tourist Kathryn, known as @scouseblu, shared Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall on the west coast of Florida on the night of 9 October or morning of 10 October with tropical force winds affecting the west coast from the morning of 9 October. There is an increasing risk of life-threatening storm surge and high winds on the west coast and heavy rainfall and high winds are expected to impact large parts of Florida."
According to the latest Foreign Office warning For anyone who is in Florida, please be safe and please be careful".
Urging people to stay safe, Kathryn said Everywhere is out of gas and roads are too backed up for him to evaluate,
This is why a lot of people are staying behind, at a certain point traffic is so bad you cannot get out of Florida, or there's no gas
Sharing drone footage of clogged traffic along I-75 between Morris Bridge and Bruce B Downs on Monday, one X user said 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,