Hurricane Milton coming to FL

[Lilofan]

My wife has a direct report whose wife was a rhino/cheetah keeper at AK. Large animals such as the rhinos will stay outside with their enclosures open available if the animals what to go inside. Smaller animals will be brought inside to be safe.
Animals at times have more common sense at times than us humans.

When I was enjoying DAK we heard some animal keeper cast lived in trailers backstage at the theme park to take care of the animals at night

 

[Gringrinngghost]

 

[Fido Chuckwagon]

Back to a Category 5, max sustained winds 165 mph, 905 mb central pressure. There’s still a tiny little bit of time left to leave if you are there and have a car with gas. The window to do so is rapidly closing.

 

[IanDLBZF]

Last Inbound Link 300 leaves TTC at 3:12pm, Last eastbound Link 56 departs TTC at 3:12pm, Last Link 350 from Disney Springs will leave at 3:35pm.

 

[asianway]

Many are left out in their various habitats. Keeping them in close quarters in their barns with the weather raging like it will would lead to panic and potential injuries to themselves or others. The animals instinctively hunker down much like they might in the wild.

Particularly young, old, or otherwise frail animals may be brought to their barn, as well as certain species.

ASE cast will ride out the storm at the parks and DAKL to support all the animals.

You can see many of the enclosures from Wildlife Express

 

[jlhwdw]

When I was enjoying DAK we heard some animal keeper cast lived in trailers backstage at the theme park to take care of the animals at night

No one from Animal Programs lives at DAK.

 

[larryz]

Can you or someone explain this to me? Why is it moving more east than expected?

You've got two Highs behind that cold front (the blue pennants) with central pressures of 1020 and 1017 millibars (mbs). Normal atmospheric pressure at sea level is 1013 mbs. The hurricane is sporting a central low pressure of 994 mbs. No joking, that's pretty deep, but with two highs with 7 and 4 mbs differential backed up by three more highs of 1018, 1026 and 1022 to the north and west, there's no way that hurricane is pushing its way northward any time soon. Plus, the clockwise spin of dry air off the high over Georgia is feeding into the face of the counterclockwise spin of the hurricane over the gulf, reducing the amount of moisture feeding into the bands and eye, which is like throwing sand into a fire or dropping control rods into a nuclear reactor.

I'm no meteorologist, but that's what it looks like to me.

 

[Gringrinngghost]

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WTNT64 KNHC 082130
TCUAT4

Hurricane Milton Tropical Cyclone Update
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL       AL142024
430 PM CDT Tue Oct 08 2024

...AIRCRAFT MEASURES VERY LOW PRESSURE IN THE EYE OF MILTON...

Recent observations from an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter
aircraft indicate the central pressure in the eye of Milton has
fallen to an estimated 905 mb (26.72 inches).  The aircraft
observations also indicate that the maximum sustained winds are
near 165 mph (270 km/h).

SUMMARY OF 430 PM CDT...2130 UTC...INFORMATION
-----------------------------------------------
LOCATION...22.7N 87.4W
ABOUT 315 MI...510 KM WSW OF THE DRY TORTUGAS
ABOUT 475 MI...770 KM SW OF TAMPA FLORIDA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...165 MPH...270 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...ENE OR 75 DEGREES AT 9 MPH...15 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...905 MB...26.72 INCHES

$$
Forecaster Pasch/Berg/Hagen

 

[Lilofan]

No one from Animal Programs lives at DAK.

That correct they don't live full time, animal keepers work assigned shifts to stay overnight.

 

[muddyrivers]

We just spoke to some friends of ours who live in the Orlando area and they’ve decided to book a room at one of the resorts rather than wait out whatever is coming at home. They said there were several there doing the same thing. Same is happening at Universal, lots of people on their subreddit saying locals are coming for rooms. Really telling when Orlando natives are this afraid of this. Wishing them all well and hopefully they will be able to return to intact homes.

I'm curious, do you know how much Disney charged them and where they stayed? I was wondering what the discounted hurricane rates were. At least, I HOPE Disney is discounting room rates for people trying to escape.

 

[JoeCamel]

You've got two Highs behind that cold front (the blue pennants) with central pressures of 1020 and 1017 millibars (mbs). Normal atmospheric pressure at sea level is 1013 mbs. The hurricane is sporting a central low pressure of 994 mbs. No joking, that's pretty deep, but with two highs with 7 and 4 mbs differential backed up by three more highs of 1018, 1026 and 1022 to the north and west, there's no way that hurricane is pushing its way northward any time soon. Plus, the clockwise spin of dry air off the high over Georgia is feeding into the face of the counterclockwise spin of the hurricane over the gulf, reducing the amount of moisture feeding into the bands and eye, which is like throwing sand into a fire or dropping control rods into a nuclear reactor.

I'm no meteorologist, but that's what it looks like to me.

One correction, 905 millibars now and it got as low as 897 yesterday

 

[Lilofan]

I'm curious, do you know how much Disney charged them and where they stayed? I was wondering what the discounted hurricane rates were. At least, I HOPE Disney is discounting room rates for people trying to escape.

I called just to check. The Disney reservations agent said there are no more resort rooms available at WDW from Oct 8-11. No more rooms at the inn.

 

[cr3346]

 

[DryerLintFan]

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The lower the millibars the more intense the storm?

 

[Fido Chuckwagon]

The lower the millibars the more intense the storm?

Yes. It is one of the strongest storms in terms of central pressure in the Atlantic in history.

 

[DisDude33]

I called just to check. The Disney reservations agent said there are no more resort rooms available at WDW from Oct 8-11. No more rooms at the inn.

Ironically I’m supposed to be checking into a Disney room on the 12th but I have my doubts about making that happen at this point with how bad this thing is looking.

 

[Mr. Sullivan]

I'm curious, do you know how much Disney charged them and where they stayed? I was wondering what the discounted hurricane rates were. At least, I HOPE Disney is discounting room rates for people trying to escape.

I don’t but I’ll ask when we speak to them tomorrow. It was a fast call they just wanted to let us know they weren’t staying home.

 

[Lilofan]

Ironically I’m supposed to be checking into a Disney room on the 12th but I have my doubts about making that happen at this point with how bad this thing is looking.

If many are checking out late it makes the ones waiting for a room to wait longer to check in.

 

[Mr. Sullivan]

Ironically I’m supposed to be checking into a Disney room on the 12th but I have my doubts about making that happen at this point with how bad this thing is looking.

I wonder if they’re really actually all full or if they’re cutting off online and phone booking so that in person evacuees can get rooms when they arrive. People Magazine just posted a story about how a lot of people on the coasts tend to go toward the resort if they have to leave and what Disney’s hurricane accommodations are like.

 

[networkpro]

The 630PM EDT map shows the high pressure pushing further south but the pressure dropping south east of the eye by 7 millibars (1013.25 millibar is sea level normal pressure). The low of 987 millibars is the equivalent of the normal pressure of the atmosphere at 718.5 feet above sea level. For those not in the know, nature abhors a vacuum so high pressure flows towards low pressure and rotational inertia of different directions has a canceling effect.