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.)

    • JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      il y a 2 mois

      For those across the pond, 3658mm of rain (12’)

      Really sets it in seeing it in mm

      Edit: See below comment, I completely misinterpreted the storm surge meaning

      • Krauerking@lemy.lol
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        il y a 2 mois

        No that is storm surge.
        So it’s the hurricane pushes that much water onto the shore through force and can get that high of water above sea level.

        So more akin to a slow tsunami where a hurricane pushes up to 3.6M of water up onto the land then it rains more on top of that. Storm surge is mostly the reason for the houses on pillars too.