Milton

[Pipe_Dream]

Thoughts going out to friends and relatives in Venice, Cape Coral, Lake Wales, New Smyrna Beach, the Keys . . . and for all hoping that this won't be the total disaster that it's being touted as.

This should automatically update as new forecasts come in:

[phatdaddy]

Bad news is , this one is much stronger with larger storm surge.
Good news is, it is much smaller. 4 mile eye, vs 40 mile eye of Helena.

Predicting weaker as it approaches land, hooped that pans out.

[Pipe_Dream]

It's showing some signs of weakening -- wind shear and some dry air entering from the west -- but isn't weakening fast enough and still is forecast to have max sustained winds of 125 at landfall tonight. Why do they all seem to make landfall at night? (I know, they all don't...)

Looks really bad for my cousin in Venice.

[phatdaddy]

Venice is definitely in harms way,hope he makes out ok. Should be a lot more sharks teeth exposed after this

[scook]

Hey Phat - for an ignorant west coast guy who’s following this, what are sharks teeth?

[phatdaddy]

Venice beach is know for finding fossilized sharks teeth in the sand. When I lived in Tampa, we would go down on the weekend, walk the beach and pick them up. Not unusual to fill a Pringle can in an afternoon. Most were small, .25-.75 inch long. Read some where they think there was an ancient riverbed there once.

The gulf is very shallow down there, 25 ft deep 20 miles out, so I figured the surge and swell will disturb a lot of previously undesturbed sand.