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Milton

Every dispatch filed on Milton, in order, so you can watch the call sharpen from first mention to the last word.

6Dispatches
5Days · OCT 5–OCT 9
I-26Tropics
Where the dispatches were filed4 of 6 placed
Map of North America and the Atlantic with a shield at each dispatch's place Natural Earth · places from the headlines
IR Satellite 5:21 PM ET FIGURE 1 OCT 5 · I-26 TROPICS IR Satellite 5:21 PM ET Hurricane Milton at 11:50 AM ET FIGURE 1 OCT 8 · I-26 TROPICS Hurricane Milton at 11:50 AM ET Florida landfall in next 18-hours with destructive surge and winds LOOP OCT 9 · I-26 TROPICS Florida landfall in next 18-hours with destructive surge and winds
The route · every exit
  1. Exit 1 · OCT 5 Milton expected to rapidly intensify and slam into Florida by Wednesday Florida
  2. Exit 2 · OCT 6 · Subscribers Milton forecast to become at least a strong Category 4 hurricane
  3. Exit 3 · OCT 7 · Subscribers Gulf coast of Florida faces catastrophic storm surge from Milton by Wednesday Florida
  4. Exit 4 · OCT 8 Eyewall replacement has changed Milton's structure making it a larger system Florida
  5. Exit 5 · OCT 9 · Subscribers Hurricane Milton regains Category 5 with 905 mb pressure
  6. Exit 6 · OCT 9 Florida landfall in next 18-hours with destructive surge and winds Florida
END Final dispatch OCT 9.

Why I-26?

Tropical stories ride Interstate 26, after the 26 °C sea-surface temperature often used as a rough threshold for tropical development.

26 °C

The sea-surface temperature often used as a rough threshold for tropical development; the shield number of this road.

Invest

An area the Hurricane Center is investigating, numbered 90–99 with a basin letter, before it has a name.

ACE

Accumulated Cyclone Energy: a season's wind, squared and summed every six hours. Climatology sets the scale.