The hurricane, which emerged as a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend and is expected to make landfall on the western coast of Florida this evening, was declared an epic Category Five hurricane yesterday after rapidly intensifying in the gulf.
This is nothing short of astronomical. I am at a loss for words to meteorologically describe you the storm's small eye and intensity. 897mb pressure with 180 MPH max sustained winds and gusts 200+ MPH.
Meteorologists and storm experts, meanwhile, have taken to social media to detail the magnitude of the severe weather event. 'This is nothing short of astronomical,' reads a widely-shared warning from Orlando's weeknight meteorologist Noah Bergren on X-formerly-Twitter.
Red and maroon coloring on a weather radar map signals torrential rainfall, flash flooding, and hurricane conditions, revealing Milton to be what amounts to a massive red blob, swallowing the entire map.
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