I've long posted updates on tropical weather on Facebook and Telegram and such to friends and family, but I've started posting these over on ieh.one, so for anyone interested, I will post links here when I post an update. At least for now.
TS Milton has formed in the Gulf of Mexico and is likely to impact the Florida peninsula as a major (Cat 3) hurricane around Wednesday. More info and graphics here:
https://ieh.one/t/ts-milton-expected-to-hit-fl-peninsula-as-cat-3-major-hurricane-wednesday/75
You had a bad one just last week, well more for the Carolinas but still. Seems a busy year, stormwise. Let's hope for the best.
Hurricane Milton is likely to impact some of the same areas on the west coast of Florida that were impacted by Hurricane Helene, for sure.
Helene impacted the Big Bend and then GA/SC/NC/VA; Milton will cross the Florida Peninsula.
It'll be a different storm, but there is a good chance it will make landfall as a major hurricane. Two back-to-back major hurricane landfalls - if that happens - is indeed not common.
Here's the latest update - lots of uncertainty: https://ieh.one/t/hurricane-milton-expected-to-rapidly-strengthen-in-the-gulf-weaken-slightly-before-landfall-but-widespread-impacts-to-florida/76
The link was actively blocked by google and next by my universities network fortiguard ... ieh.one seems to have some serious problems with malware.
It's a Discourse site, and as far as I can tell, there is no malware... I host is on a Digital Ocean droplet...
Meanwhile, I have posted a mini-update as Hurricane Milton has been forecast to reach 185mph winds overnight, which is just below 300km/h):
https://ieh.one/t/hurricane-milton-forecast-to-reach-185mph-winds/78