Hurricanes|Experts’ assessments of the Milton storm are gloomy.
of Florida the state is preparing for severe flooding, rain and winds brought by Hurricane Milton.
Hundreds of thousands of people are planning to evacuate, and cities in the path of the hurricane have been working around the clock to prepare for the storm, US media reported CNN on Tuesday.
Milton is already the second hurricane experienced by the United States in about two weeks. Recently, the storm Helene ravaged the southeastern states of the United States. For example, Helene tested the port of Tampa in Florida. According to the news channel CNN, a record sea level rise was experienced there.
With ease Tampa can’t make it now either. The waves formed by Milton will be higher in the Tampa Bay area than the waves of Helena, says a CNN meteorologist Allison Chinchar.
With the Mayor of the City of Tampa With Jane Castor was an unadorned message to the residents on Monday.
“I can say without any dramatization: if you choose to stay in one of these evacuation zones, you will die,” he told CNN.
The area will be prepared for a hurricane by, among other things, limiting water distribution. Part of the Tampa harbor area will not have running water starting Tuesday, as it will be cut off. A water outage can last for several days.
Weather experts assessments of the storm are gloomy.
“Milton has the potential to be one of the most destructive hurricanes in West Central Florida’s history,” the National Hurricane Center said Tuesday.
CNN meteorologist by Brandon Miller according to Milton is “the strongest storm of the year on Earth”.
The storm also stirred up emotions. Local meteorologist John Morales burst into tears while reading the weather forecast on Monday.
“It’s just an unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable hurricane,” she said on air and began to cry.
“I apologize. This is absolutely horrible.”
Milton’s expected to make landfall in Florida late Wednesday. According to Tuesday’s estimates, it will be a Category 3 storm when it makes landfall.
It is in the middle of the hurricane intensity scale. In the night between Monday and Tuesday, the intensity of the hurricane decreased from the strongest category five to four.
A hurricane the intensity is expected to wane the further it moves over the continent. Director of the National Hurricane Center by Michael Brennan however, it does not guarantee that the hurricane will not be dangerous.
When the intensity of the hurricane decreases, its size is expected to increase, CNN says.
According to meteorologists, by Wednesday evening the hurricane will be twice as big as Tuesday morning. In practice, the broadening of a hurricane means that the storm’s destructive winds reach even wider.
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