Major Hurricane Milton (Category 3; 125 mph) to strike Florida tonight

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Storm's path is rare​

Milton is fueled by unusually warm water in the Gulf of Mexico, where one National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-tracked buoy near the storm's projected path Saturday night recorded a water temperature of nearly 86 degrees, 2 degrees warmer than the air. The storm is already being noted for rare attributes during a busy Atlantic hurricane season.

It will be the fifth hurricane to make landfall on the U.S. mainland in 2024, tying 2004, 2005, and 1893 for the most hurricanes to make mainland landfall on record.

And it's a rarified product of its development in the Bay of Campeche, a sheltered southern bite in the Gulf of Mexico west of the Yucatán Peninsula. Since 1850, only two storms that originated there have struck Florida; none have done it in the past 155 years, with the last to take that path recorded in 1867.

Milton is the sixth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, which now has recorded the most such storms between Sept. 24 and Oct. 5, according to Colorado State University meteorologist Philip Klotzbach.

The last time three named storms (including Kirk and Leslie) were spinning in the Atlantic in October was 2018, he said.


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Just catching up, they are saying this storm path is 'RARE'

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Depends on when you're landing.

I'm in that area too. We've gotten super lucky throughout the years so I think we'll be fine minus the flooding.

Next Week: among the victims is Controversial Coli Poster who goes by the name @Sad Bunny. We are learning that he was hesitant to make the trip until another local who survived by storm and goes by the name of @RhymesWell eased his fears by telling him and I quote “We've gotten super lucky throughout the years so I think we'll be fine minus the flooding.”

Unfortunately that was not true for the sad bunny. Police say the only remnants found in the AirBNB of Mr Bunny was dozens of family sized Johnson and Johnson baby oil bottles. Back to you Bob.
 
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