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Milton rapidly intensified to a Category 5 hurricane late Monday morning.

Within hours, Milton strengthened to a Category 2, then a Category 3, then a Category 4 and finally a Category 5.

Milton now ranks as the third-greatest 24-hour wind speed intensification for a hurricane in the Atlantic Basin. (Records are based on data since the satellite era began in the 1960s.)

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[-] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 13 points 6 hours ago

This storm has reached 180mph at its peak. Have you ever braced wind at that speed? I've ridden at 120mph on my motorcycle (at a drag strip). The wind, even with a full face helmet and visor, was so extreme that it was hard to hold on and my ears were ringing afterward despite having earplugs in. This insanity corresponds to a few seconds of a category 3 hurricane. This hurricane's winds are like that felt by squids on literbikes doing top speed runs.

[-] oatscoop@midwest.social 9 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

To add to what you've said: if you've ever hit a bug (or anything else) at those speeds you notice it. A junebug will leave a fairly decent bruise on exposed skin, and for comparison a paintball out of a marker travels about 190 mph.

Imagine the random far more substantial debris flying around during a hurricane near those speeds.

[-] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, I def prefer octopuses on gallonbikes, imperial cephalopods with 8 arms only FTW!

[-] myrrh@ttrpg.network 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

...i've done a buck fourty-five in my convertible with the top down: it's LOUD...at one fifty-five, pushing with all two hundred horsepower, my car can't make any further headway against the wind and buildings are a lot less aerodynamically efficient...

...i've ridden out a half-dozen hurricanes but category fives are get-out-of-town devastating...

[-] Ramenhunter84@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

Florida gonna look like Fallout4 post Hurricane Milton and Hurricane season ain't even over...

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 25 points 16 hours ago

What. The. Fuck.

I'm watching the live stream from WFLA, which is a St. Petersburg station. He's a photo of a bridge leaving the area right now (just after noon on Tuesday Florida time.)

Either most people with cars have evacuated or there are a lot of people who may learn the last lesson of their lives. I hope the former.

Also, the eye apparently will pass right over Cape Canaveral.

[-] archomrade@midwest.social 2 points 5 hours ago

They've been evacuating all day, i was watching streams with roads bumper to bumper at 8am today

[-] SmokumJoe@lemmy.world 19 points 17 hours ago

You would think religious people would say this is a sign. They probably do but apply it in the wrong direction.

[-] sue_me_please@awful.systems 10 points 6 hours ago

In the 2000's, religious people would blame hurricanes on things like gay marriage.

[-] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 3 points 5 hours ago

And the radio waves were just full of their bloviating

[-] MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

just makes them delve into conspiracy thinking even more

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

It turns out it is a sign of Dems having weather control devices.

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Of all the gay lasers, the purple ones and those of higher frequency like UV and EUV have the most photonic power.

[-] djsoren19@yiffit.net 4 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, they think it's a sign that "too many gays" are now in Florida, and God has to punish the sodomites.

Trying to get Florida Republicans to do any amount of introspection would be like trying to teach an ant to play basketball.

[-] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 11 points 15 hours ago

It's only a sign when it hits blue states. In red states it's HAARP or the Jewish space lasers.

[-] Overshoot2648@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago

Or it was a test and anyone who didn't survive wasn't faithful enough.

[-] Bahnd@lemmy.world 37 points 20 hours ago

Florida... Give him back his stapler, like right now.

[-] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

And get him some cake. Because last time he didn't get a piece of cake.

[-] M1nds3nd@lemmy.ca 13 points 20 hours ago

Ok, I, I set the state on fire.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago

I was told I could inundate Tampa at a reasonable volume from 9 to 11

[-] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 33 points 20 hours ago

"Climate change isn't real"

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 16 points 19 hours ago

Don't look up

[-] Tja@programming.dev 50 points 23 hours ago

Within hours, Milton strengthened to a Category 2, then a Category 3, then a Category 4 and finally a Category 5.

Someone had a word quota to fill.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

Probably submitted the article with 1.1 line spacing and 13 point font

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 points 14 hours ago

Did Helene not eradicate all the idiots?

How are there more?

Graghhhhhh.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago

Hurricanes don't like it when you ban books. Prayin for you, florida man.

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