Important Takeaways:
- Meteorologists predicted a tropical storm could form in an area of high pressure that would push it on the same path as Helene and Milton that struck Florida earlier this month.
- The pressure system could also create a funnel, allowing it to travel up the Eastern Seaboard.
- Meteorologist Michael Lowry told USA Today: ‘Named storms affecting us here in the states in November only happen about once every 15 years on average.
- ‘They’re an uncommon occurrence but when they do strike, they almost invariably strike Florida.’
- While rare, the Sunshine State has seen three hurricanes in November since 2005, with the most recent in 2022
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Important Takeaways:
- Milton rapidly strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane Monday on a path toward Florida population centers including Tampa and Orlando, threatening a dangerous storm surge in Tampa Bay and setting the stage for potential mass evacuations less than two weeks after a catastrophic Hurricane Helene swamped the coastline.
- The storm is expected to stay at about its current strength for the next couple of days, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
- Helene was also a Category 4 at landfall in northern Florida.
- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday that it was imperative that messes from Helene be cleaned up ahead of Milton’s arrival so they don’t become dangerous flying projectiles.
- “We don’t have time for bureaucracy and red tape,” DeSantis said. “We have to get the job done.”
- DeSantis expanded his state of emergency declaration Sunday to 51 counties and said Floridians should prepare for more power outages and disruption, making sure they have a week’s worth of food and water and are ready to hit the road.
- It has been two decades since so many storms crisscrossed Florida in such a short period of time. In 2004, an unprecedented five storms struck Florida within six weeks, including three hurricanes that pummeled central Florida.
- Milton is a bit atypical since it formed so far west and is expected to cross the entire southern Gulf, according to Daniel Brown, a hurricane specialist at the center.
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