'This is just... horrific': Meteorologist gets emotional as he details strengthening of Hurricane Milton

9NEWS ^ | 10/8/24 | Sarah Swain

[DallasBiff]

A meteorologist and hurricane specialist has become emotional on TV as he described just how strong the hurricane heading for millions of people in Florida and Mexico has become.

John Morales told NBC 6 in South Florida that Hurricane Milton has become a Category five, with wind speeds almost tripling.

"It has dropped fifty millibars, in ten hours" he said, choking up in the process.

"I apologise, this is just... horrific."

He said he blames global warming and climate change for the increase in extreme weather.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

It appears to have formed where a comet hit the world 65 million years ago and killed off the dinosaurs! I blame that comet for today’s hurricane!
I learned to live well inland from the oceans, earthquake zones. Sadly I am in tornado zones.

[1Old Pro]

Denver used to be under an ocean. Does anyone think one single solitary thing could have been done by humans to change that ocean disappearing?

Nope, the parks like Zion, as the earth plates literally pushed up mountains, are not controllable by man. We can keep water and air cleaner, that's about it. That of course is barring anything nature would do to change that.

[Pollard]

People with a view of the beach should leave but many won't, especially if their place is concrete. They don't want their place getting looted and there are people who take advantage of people having fled.

Lived in Ctrl FL for 25 years and my sister has lived in the metro Tampa area for the same. Parents lived in Clearwater - niece still does. Mo-in-law lived in Dunedin. There's another set of Keys and islands that act as a surge buffer. Those will be evacuated. None of my family has ever felt the need to evacuate and none have had home damage. All live or lived in a location included in the map below. Parents lived in a mobile home so they would go stay with my sister during a hurricane just to be safe but always went back to an intact undamaged mobile home afterward.

Pretty sure the keys/islands are where DeSantis made fame for setting up a temporary bridge.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Suppose he had said “we really do not know it the intensity of the storm is due primarily to global warming”. This would have been a true statement.

He would have been tarred and feathered.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Good luck; stay safe!

[who knows what evil?]

LOLOL at concrete...Helene DEMOLISHED our home..it was BRICK, and I haven’t found a piece any bigger than a laptop.

Remember...cash is KING in the ZONE, and Florida is about to become part of it! Learn from experience, or from those of us who fell victim to Helene.

[Pollard]

I moved from FL to tornado alley but I’m in hill country of the Ozarks where twisters don’t stay organized long enough to get big. The flatlands of MO are different.

I have a view of a ridge about 1/8 mile away to the South and I do worry about a twister making it over that and slamming right onto this place.

There’s a place down the road like that. Wind funnels down a big long valley, pops up over up over the hill at one end, comes back down and slams healthy trees down to the ground on about a half acre spot.

I’m not too far from the New Madrid fault line so hopefully that never reawakens. I don’t care to be at ground zero of a quake that rings church bells in New England.

[one guy in new jersey]

Ask any of these so-called meteorologists what a Forbush decrease is.

If he gets that “deer in the headlights” look, or worse, shrugs his shoulders, move on.

Not worth talking or listening to.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160825113235.htm

[bantam]

“Some pansy needs a low T treatment plan.”
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[dfwgator]

Today's TV weathermen are like "Johnny" from Airplane!

[turfmann]

When he started to cry.

[butterdezillion]

This is probably a stupid but honest question. Based on what is in your link, would the large solar flare from not quite a week ago end up pulling water out of the atmosphere? And if so, could it be enough to reduce the strength of a hurricane over the course of about a week?

[metmom]

What happened in North Carolina is different, that came out of nowhere.

No, it actually didn't. It was forecast to stall over that area.

I think what got a lot of people is the rainfall amount and the subsequence, unprecedented flash flooding and mudslides.

I think THAT is what was unexpected, and it appears that that is what did all the damage.

[crz]

There is some shear on the north side of the storm.
How much that effects it is a question.

[FamiliarFace]

My family in St. Pete and Tampa feel much the same. My sister moved there 45 years ago, and we are native Floridians. Family homestead is in Gainesville, but we also lived in Tallahassee, Jacksonville, Orlando, and Winter Haven before moving back to the homestead. One brother’s family is still in Winter Haven/ Lakeland/Lake Wales area.

The family in WH has sustained flooding and roof damage in past hurricanes. The ones in St. Pete have had minor damage.

I think I fear that debris not yet cleaned up from Helene will become great projectiles.

I’ve lived through the aftermath of family members without power for 3 weeks. It ain’t pretty. I feel helpless from so far away. I’ve had to search for gas, water, and ice for them from here, when they had no power, no way to charge up cell phones, etc. I don’t relish being in this position, but I’m happy to help out if that’s the only thing I can do.

I pray that all in Milton’s way are unharmed. One of these days, people aren’t going to be so lucky.

[one guy in new jersey]

The dynamic is said to be this:

A sudden and massive solar storm acts to expands the magnetic influence of the sun so as more and more to enroach upon or even envelop the earth.

This causes fewer and fewer cosmic rays to reach the earth and penetrate the atmosphere deep enough so as to nucleate the type of water droplets that create cloud cover.

So low cloud cover (albedo), on average, will decrease.

Gonna take a brain break now!

[Magnum44]

Perfect!

[MayflowerMadam]

If it’s true, this is terrible.

But usually they over promise and under deliver when it comes to predictions. They love the razzle-dazzle, and causing some chaos before the election ... even better (for them).

If it’s true, though, then it’s terrible.

[Teacher317]

“It has dropped fifty millibars, in ten hours” he said, choking up in the process.

You can rest assured that the idiot is a DEI hire and not an actual intelligent and informed expert on the topic, when he mentions numbers "so scary" that they make him cry on camera... without giving anything by way of comparison to indicate why 50 in 10 hrs is a big deal.

ACTUAL INFORMATION: Hurricane Wilma, one of the Big Names in history, dropped 97 millibars in 24 hours. So Milton's 50 in 10 is a similar pace as Wilma, but not as sustained. Wilma killed 52, and did $26bn in damage.

Hurricane Mitch in 1998 killed almost 12,000. Katrina in 2005 killed 1300.

2005 had 3 Hurricanes under 904 millibars. Mitch is bottoming out at 897. Wilma holds the record at 882.

For Mitch:
October 8, the pressure fell from 981 mb (28.97 inHg) to 897 mbar (26.49 inHg), a drop of 84 mb (2.48 inHg), while the winds increased by 90 mph (145 km/h). This was also the third-fastest period of rapid intensification in the Atlantic after Wilma and Hurricane Felix, and the fastest in the Gulf of Mexico. Afterwards, further strengthening was halted by an eyewall replacement cycle, causing the storm to weaken, falling to high-end Category 4 intensity later that night.

[basalt]

what planet are you on??...THATS WHAT WAS UNEXPECTED...THE LANDSLIDES AND FLASH FLOODS....500 MILES FROM LANDFALL!!!...GEEZ, USE YOUR BRAINS.