Hurricane Milton Coming
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It's like deja vu all over again
— Yogi Bera
Another day, another hurricane. I am getting really tired of these.
Helene Milton is heading through our area. AnneMarie’s school (and the colleges) are closed tomorrow and Thursday….
I, again, expect to lose power (and Internet).
The National Hurricane Center still makes a pretty good site for getting information, and everyone has their own preffered metric for tracking. Personally, I like the wind speed probabilities chart.
Normally, Gainesville sees something like a 50-70% wind probability (tropical storm range) for a storm. We almost never have higher wind probabilites (50kt or above)… mostly due to our inland location. Helene Milton is currently presenting Gainesville with a 25%.
GAINESVILLE FL 34 X 1( 1) 11(12) 12(24) 1(25) X(25) X(25)
GAINESVILLE FL 50 X X( X) 2( 2) 4( 6) 1( 7) X( 7) X( 7)
Tampa/Sarasota is not looking great. Going to be a rough few days in Florida (to say the least).
Gainesville is seeing panic shopping (shelves are being wiped out), gas stations sold out, and normal crowd stupidity that panic brings. Of course, since stores won’t replenish until after the storm, this makes for a less than stellar immediate outlook.
Stay safe.