Hurricane specialist warns Milton will be a Category 4

Michael Lowry, a hurricane specialist and storm surge expert, said Hurricane Milton is forecast to become a Category 4 before landfall on Wednesday in the Florida Gulf Coast. 

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[guitarlessonswith]

Thoughts are with you Florida. Freeze bottles of water to keep your food cooler longer if power goes out. Hang in there.

[ziziroberts]

Or even a Category 5. The storm surge will be massive. If you live on the West Coast of Florida, leave tomorrow.

[anthonypicone]

Clean up from Helene?? Ft Myers Beach and Sanibel island have STILL not been rebuilt since Ian 2 years ago.

[videorocketzmillarmilla]

❤ if possible go now. No power knocked out b4 it hits. No power no gas no atm. Evac hotel ahead of time move West. Arizona good
Ask for evac rate pay hotel ahead. Been in 2 floods here in California super scary. Take care all❤

[TonyTrupp]

It’s hard to attribute any single extreme weather event to climate change, but it’s also true that these extreme weather events are becoming more common due to a warming climate. Higher category hurricanes are slowly becoming more frequent. The reason why is three fold: higher temperatures increase the rate of ocean evaporation, warm air is capable of holding more moisture, and more heat means more potential energy and more wind. So storms in a hotter climate are capable of dumping more water and inflicting more damage. These storms are going to continue getting more severe in future decades. As a country we should be able to have an adult conversation about this trajectory, not banning the government from even mentioning the words “climate change”, like what florida’s state government has recently done.

[anttony]

If I lived in Tampa I would be boarding my house up like I lived in a crack house in Ebor city

[jonathansanders]

Why are there 2 hurricanes heading east back to back? This is unusual.

[theofficialpolynesianprinc]

We just got one like they havnt even cleaned up the debris from the first 😩 like give us a few 🙄

[charflorida]

If this hurricane takes the south track, will it be really bad for South Florida? Seems so. And I also heard that the south side may have a lot of tornados. Could we be in danger here in Broward and Miami Dade?

[rtqii]

If comes down to a choice between saving heavy iron based weapons or saving your life in the storm surge... Remember the guns are innocent.

[edgarchegwin]

Hi WPLG Local 10, I dont see how this hurricane will decrease in intensity before making landfall, in my opinion, somewhere south of the Tampa Bay area, I went through huricane Wilma back in 2005, which actually had way less time than this one to gain strength and we ended up with a cat 3 hurricane in our area of MIami, in my opinion this one could very well be a cat 4 hurrciane by the time makes landfall somewhere in the southwest cost of Florida, rgs

[bobwhite]

Hoping Milton stays south of Tampa mitigating the destruction.

[gd]

Fill bath tub with water so you have it when water stops.

[BillTrootter]

I tell you what my sister in law and brother in law live in englewood Florida they have no where to go so hold on people and brace yourselfs!

[SylveonMujigaeOfficial]

This storm became a Category 5 storm, and the strongest by pressure since 2007, and the strongest by windspeed since 2019.

[def-potu]

Kind of strange how it just took a hard right towards Florida. Hope everyone stays safe and is either evacuating or prepared

[ThatNiravGuy]

Imagine how many insurance companies are gonna pull out of Florida after this hurricane

[Jameskelvin]

I will likely be in the path of the eye of the storm. I lìved through Fancis and Gene. It has been over a decade I believe since we saw a storm like this. I dont believe it will weaken right before landfall. I think this is going to be an extremely powerful and destructive storm.

[ocsrc]

So the Cat 4 storm will hit somewhere between New Orleans and Key Lagro

[AG-iulv]

Look at that cloud bank swirl around the center 😮