[Uber-Eng]

“- or Cletus guessed right and it veered south to Cuba. Of course these storms almost exclusively head north, not south.”

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They normally don’t go from west to east either, but here we are.

I do remember a hurricane a couple decades ago that was headed straight for a relative in Cape Canaveral area. I prayed that it would diminish or miss them, and next thing I know it did a right turn and went relatively less harmlessly up the coast then into the Atlantic.

“I’m sure that was just a coincidence.” (But get them prayers going for those in the path of Milton anyway!).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Floyd

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Now, another disturbance just west of Fla.
When Milton passes through Fla and loses strength, will this one be maneuvered into place to rejuvenate it?
And then crawl slowly up the East Coast as a fresh Cat5?

[Bob Ireland]

***get them prayers going for those in the path of Milton anyway***

Thanks... When you live in a regular storm zone - and you believe in God - that comes naturally. Milton has now become a four day prayer for me 😌👌🙏 - humbly but fervently🛐👈

[Bob Ireland]

***They normally don’t go from west to east either, but here we are***

Well, Gulf storms do but not quite this much 'eastering'; they tend strongly to want to turn north - thus all of those storms that hit Texas, Louisiana or the Fla 'Big Bend' in the eastern Panhandle. The storms that come up the west coast of Florida are usually Atlantic storms that pass south of Cuba and then turn north.

This storm has made a bee line straight for Tampa Bay from north of the Yucatan Peninsula. Not a common track that I can remember. 🤔🤷‍♂️