Milton will be a Hurricane
 

Looks like the next hurricane is on its way.

https://youtu.be/hq5c8_X1Iio?si=4jUHi0l_2DoYxndZ

I wish Milton would get lost! And stay out of Paradise.

I'm no meteorologist but I can't remember a system like this developing in the western Caribbean and moving northeast. It seems to me they usually start off the coast of Africa as "tropical disturbances" and track westward with the trade winds.

Once again I'm glad I was too poor to retire to the Gulf Coast.

Arizona is looking better and better.

No hurricanes, but dust storms.

They do have flash floods on occasion.

Lived in Florida entire life. Late season storms start in the western area. Wilma was a great example. A lot of hot water in the Gulf

Gee whiz, another one? Ugh! :yuck:

I've heard that TV was designed to handle extra water though... don't know if that's true.

Very true. The golf courses flood as do the tunnels but as far as I know never the homes nor businesses here in the Villages. There is a little bit of street flooding here and there.

Denis Phillips is now saying it will be a cat 3 when it makes landfall. I follow him on facebook.

If it directly hits Tampa I wonder what that will be like for TV.

All we can do is guess at this point.

The winds normally dissipate quickly over land. We're 90 or so miles away from Tampa which means a lot of dissipation.

There have been a few hurricanes since I bought here in 2018. Some of them might have hit as Category 3. Some heavy winds here but no devastation.

The biggest impact from Helene was water, whether storm surge, flooded rivers, or mud slides. For the most part, those will have little impact here.

Fyi:

https://www.districtgov.org/PdfUpload/Storm%20Water.pdf

Doom and gloom
 

If you take a minute to look at NOAA.gov you'll see that there is currently a chance of a tropical storm over Mexico. How is that a Cat 3 hurricane already.....but maybe buy a ton of toilet paper just in case? I'm already stocked up on alcohol and chicken wings for football season, so I think we can make it through anything....but I hope it rains real good so I don't have to pay for irrigation water

There is a current (not "chance of") tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico. Models run by NOAA and many others are predicting that the storm will intensify into a hurricane and will continue east to make landfall somewhere in Florida. Not doom and gloom, just a model with a fairly good track record.