
10/09/2024
2 AM Milton Update
Pressure drops one millibar
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Hurricane Milton’s track and data has remains relatively unchanged in the 2 a.m. update from the National Hurricane Center. It is moving northeast at 12 mph with 160 mph sustained winds and gusts up to 200 mph. The only difference in data is that the pressure has dropped one millibar to 914. It remains a category 5 hurricane and is expected to make landfall as a category 4 hurricane on the west-central coast of Florida very late Wednesday evening, or more likely Thursday morning.
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Milton has moved into an eyewall replacement cycle and the tight well formed eyewall shown on satellite yesterday is no longer present. Eyewall replacement cycles are a common occurrence in hurricanes and usually cause maximum wind speeds to rise and fall and the wind field t...