Hurricane Milton will be another nothing burger

Agree

Hmm I don't think so, OP.

I use the "weather&radar" app, an extremely accurate app made in Germany, and it is usually spot on with its predictions. So, too, the path and strength of Milton. SEe for yourself, I linked the interactive chart I'm afraid Florida, and in particular Tampa, are in for a devastating time.

It’s nothing for your big fat ass sitting online in Ohio

Which sock puppet is this, OP?

Category only measures wind speed - every hurricane we get will be way more devastating than you think because climate change is increasing the amount of water being dropped independent of category rating. Milton is also approaching from a unique angle that causes far greater threat from storm surging than it would otherwise. Tampa is also relatively unprepared to minimize property damages compared to other parts of the state that are hit more regularly.

The media hype is crazy.

HI KAMALA!

The storm surge is what is most worrying, OP. Hurricane Katrina hit as a Cat. 2 and look how that turned out.

OP = Trumpist in denial about many, MANY things, but this one may be the literal end of him

Asia deals with much stronger typhoons than this shit, and no one runs around screaming to take shelter or die. Americas are frightened pussies.

^ This is becoming absurd. Millions of people displaced over something they get every year.

R2 that shows the eye hitting Tampa Bay not Sarasota.

[QUOTE] Asia deals with much stronger typhoons than this shit, and no one runs around screaming to take shelter or die. Americas are frightened pussies.

If Asians are such pillars of stoicism, then why are they always running around screaming in those Godzilla movies?

There are around fifty countries in “Asia”, R10 - to which are you referring?

R10 so you watch the news from there or you’re just completely talking out of your ass? I guess they just swim?

Every year the media hypes "this may be the worst storm Florida has ever seen!" And then every year they get some rain and then we move on to Thanksgiving and Christmas and nobody thinks about hurricanes again until August.

[quote]And then every year they get some rain

Milton is another dud 😞

Luck was with us here in the Georgia low country. I just came out of 9 days with no electricity and massive destruction from Helene, and they were predicting we'd get 40 mph winds from 4am - 8am this morning. That may be nothing like what we got from Helene but winds that high in an area already suffering from extensive damage that is still in the early stages of the clean up could have been devastating. The power would have certainly gone out again. My body clock made me wake up at 4:05 this morning and nothing was out of the ordinary weather wise. And now it's 7:41 and still no winds. Not a leaf moving on a tree. Quite chilly though, which I love.

I checked the radar and it appears the storm tracked just far enough south that we were saved. I was really dreading another round of power outages. It's now moving out into the Atlantic for parts unknown.

Hey OP and other trolls on this thread- would you like to be without power for a week or so and perhaps lose your home if not your life? Suggest you look into what the storm has done and is doing.

OP deserves to drown

OP sounds grossly obese and bitter.

R21 in 2012 we had no water or power for a week after Sandy, right here in the center of the world: lower Manhattan. You didn’t hear us running around bitching and moaning..

My guess is that the OP and a few others on this thread are Trumpers- if you’ve been following the usual crop of Republican lies about the storms and the Federal response.

No, we're just tired of all of the hyperbole when it comes to hurricanes. You'll die if you stay!

[quote]Milton is another dud 😞

And this is supposed to be a BAD thing? Do you treat everything as entertainment?

I think you’re an idiot R26. People do die who stay and or right now become stranded due to flooding. Hyperbole? Ever been at the center of one of these storms or in proximity to a tornado?

OP probably also thinks the deep state "demonrats" are are controlling the weather from. Antarctica with Jewish space lasers.

OP, if you think a cat 3 hurricane (winds of 111-129 mph) is a nothing burger then you clearly have never been through a hurricane. Our winds were clocked at 106 mph during Helene where I live and we suffered unimaginable destruction. I was without power for 9 days and there are still plenty of people who are without power and have been told it will be up to 3 weeks before they'll have power again.

another? like helene? like helene didn't cause any damage?

TV meteorologists perform their duties knowing that thousands, if not millions, of watchers are relying on what comes out of their mouth and computer models in potentially life or death natural events.

It's not the unseen, off-camera staff person viewers see, it's the person on TV who is on the hook for whatever info comes out of their mouth.

I wouldn't want that responsibility. And you're damn right.

If our models are showing what potentially the indicators are telling us, as distinct from what are probable, I'm going with reporting the potentially dangerous situation, if that's what the science is finding may happen.

If that's my mug on TV reporting, knowing my info is being relied upon, I'm going to be wrong in a good way, rather than a bad way.

I've never been near a hurricane. I never want to be.

But I've experienced more than a few polar vortexes and blizzards (I'm one of those humans who is deeply bonded with Winter and wouldn't live in a climate that doesn't give me all I got coming).

Here, I know if my TV weather person is saying, "These will be dangerous temperatures, stay inside, make sure your heat works" they mean business and if it turns out we only actually get 5 below rather than 20 below, or 10 inches of snow when they've predicted 20 to 25, I get it.

They're reporting the potential max, as they should. What if they under reported? Think about it.

In situations like serious weather events I think it's a slippery slope weather forecasters are on when they offer their predictions. When things get bad and people are given a wide range of possibilities, most people are going to latch onto what gives them the most comfort. If they say "there is a possibility we'll hurricane force winds tonight if the storm tracks a certain way, or if it tracks a different way we'll be in much better shape" it is human nature for most people to automatically assume the least severe option will happen, and when the worst happens they're devastated.

I've heard they gave all the money to the immigrants.

[Quote] No, we're just tired of all of the hyperbole when it comes to hurricanes. You'll die if you stay!

Said from hurricane-prone Pittsburgh

Those tornados yesterday were well worth all the alarms sounding.

At my place block from east coast beach the eye/hole passed directly over. Afterwards wind gust on my balcony went to 80mph till 8am this morning. No damage . The roof blew off Hell's Fargo bank. No loss.

Imagine if they said, meh, this hurricane is a nothingburger, carry on. And thousands died. It’s better to expect the worst.

Thank you r38.

You said in 3 sentences what I overwrote at r32.

What you wrote is exactly the point.

On another aspect of all of this, I could do without the overwrought, drama infused lead-in music that MSNBC and CNN use during dangerous weather events, but there is, I suppose, a point to them.

I wonder if it's going to re-form over the Atlantic? Could cause problems for the east coast.