Outstanding weather report from New Zealand. You answered many of the questions I have about Milton. I live 100 miles north of Tampa, in the center of the state, so wind will be our problem. We are not in an evacuation area. Thanks again and keep us in your thoughts and prayers.
Great job all the way from New Zealand 🇳🇿 a place I know pretty well. I live in Spacecoast FL close to Cape Canaveral 4 miles in . We prepared but it is in Gods hands .
as a resident of northern california i can fully appreciate the evacuation orders coming down. Being told "leave or you will die" have been said here many times and when a wildfire is bearing down on you, you leave.
Im in Georgia but lord i hope all of you that have to leave yor homes return back to as little damage as possible 🙏🏾. I couldn't imagine going through that
He's very factual, not trying to terrify the viewer yet conveying the message that if you don't evacuate the coastal regions, you will die. That's a weirdly pleasant balance.
Keep it up Phil! Good honest reporting! As someone who grew up in Florida and now live in New Zealand, I’m surprised to learn something new with that tidbit about the ocean shelf. We used to have hurricane parties in Florida for anything below a cat 4… Something about this tells me people aren’t going to have the same attitude. Prays out to all those in its path! 🙏
Indeed! I’d say geography is one of the more important disciplines in understanding meteorology, playing a huge role in weather patterns like it does here in NZ, albeit on a larger scale. For example, the influence that the Rocky Mountains, Gulf of Mexico, and deserts of the South West have on severe weather over the greater Continental US. Once you understand that, it’s easy to see why it’s a breeding ground for Tornados.
Soil in Florida is pretty saturated year round due to frequent rainfall and having a low water table. Drainage is pretty poor as well because it’s so flat. Never takes too much rain to flood it.
I have a friend in Frostproof which is just inland from Tampa. He has gone south to the north end of the keys to stay with friends. He isnt holding much hope for his house to survive. Thoughts are with all in it's path.
Chad Meyers on CNN just repeated what I basically said - the storm surge with Milton is like Katrina, it won't likely ease as it moves in. But yes, certainly NOLA is partially below sea level which complicates it much more for that event.
Hi there David. Put simply storms that form at the equator track to the poles. So hurricanes often initially track east to west in the trade winds, then they peel off and head north-east towards the pole (Coriolis effect). But along this journey they get what we call "steering" - which is when a high pressure zone acts like a boulder in a stream and change the current.... hurricanes prefer the path of leas resistance so they often get nudged in a direction along the edges of these powerful high pressure areas (gently nudged, or sometimes rushed/forced). If the hurricane is trapped with high pressure around it, it can get wind shear (when the the top of the storm gets its head cut off like from a wind powered buzz saw!) and the storm falls apart. Finally, the sea and land beneath them can power them up - weaken them. So quite a few moving parts, but modelling these days is getting exceptionally accurate at picking tracking ... but it's still not perfect.
I have been following the progress of Milton, hot on the heels of last week's hurricane and thus delivering a double-hit as much of the debris has not been cleared from the last one, thus becoming the source of projectiles that will hammer structures. The storm surge will be in the region of 5m in some areas. What blows me away is the politicization of the source of increasing weather events - belief in climate change has become a party issue and it should not be - it's science that is based on experience, observation and record. Yet some totally irresponsible extremists are now suggesting a conspiracy theory that the hurricanes are not created by climate change but engineered with powerful lasers to support climate change. It beggars belief that anyone would be that gullible, but people believe on party lines.
The TRUE story of Nikola Tesla - told by Lt. Col. Thomas Bearden - Free Energy device explained !! Type that in the youtube search it's a presentation from 1980s
I live on East coast of FL They call where I live “the highlands”. I’m 27’ above sea level Don’t worry far enough away from water no storm surge near my house. Just how flat FL is
Hi, I’m in Florida and I can’t find the information I need to answer a question I have. How close does Hurricane Milton need to be to Florida before it’s possible to predict precisely where it will make landfall? Thank you! Kelly in Orlando
Hi Kelly, good question - and usually it's within 12 to 6 hours that you can really nail that. But large hurricanes "wobble" sideways and this can sometimes see them last minute moving in a certain direction. This actually happened last night, where it wobbled 30 miles southwards off track... before correcting itself in the morning. Most computer models should be fairly similar when you wake up tomorrow, which will help clarify things further.
Thanks for letting us know - that graphic is from CNN and you're right, it is showing incorrect times... it's showing NZ times, despite it saying ET. Appreciate you pointing that out, we will let CNN know (and avoid using this map in the future).
You and Orlando being more inland will be safer than this projected. Orlando is looking a category 1-2 hurricane, Lakeland could still get a 3 but at the very least, storm surge won’t be a major threat. I’d try to move further into Orlando if you can though.
I'm glad I moved out of Florida after Andrew. Crazy to live on a sand, sea level peninsula that is hurricane alley for over 100 years of weather history. Matthew 7:24-27: Jesus says that those who hear his words and put them into practice are like a wise man who builds his house on a rock. The house stands firm against the winds, rains, and floods because it's built on a solid foundation. Those who hear his words but don't put them into practice are like a foolish man who builds his house on sand. The house falls with a great crash when the winds, rains, and floods beat against it.
As a New Zealander who lives on an island I've never understood how so many expensive homes and highways and infrastructure exists in Florida's most vulnerable coastlines - it's remarkable really!!
I live about 20 miles west of Tampa. These models are not facts. There's no guarantee where this storm is going to hit until it makes landfall. Also, it doesn't matter where the eye makes landfall. We barely got any winds or rain from Helene, but we still didn't have power for 2 days.
@@danielletownsend4237 this is going to be a cat 5, it's southerly route will continue it's strength. It will be catastrophic. Reminds me of Andrew in 1992, just coming in opposite direction.
@@WeatherWatchTV North Port will be bullseye 🎯. Please warn all of them. Sometimes you have to go out on a limb. I know what has been said. It will happen
Yeah but Phil, you can't have climate change on a flat earth.. Me mate Spider told me that down the pub and he's no idiot. He knows 37 words with more than five letters...
Please worship the CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, THE LORD GOD and try not to worry too much about the differences between the different religions and denominations, try to think about the similarities and the things they may have in common more than the differences. Daily prayer is a fundamental part that many people do not practice although it is encouraged. 🙏 "CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, LORD GOD, I beg you to never force me to worship any false god or object and I ask you for forgiveness for my sins and immorality. Thank you for everything. Amen." Please pray this now, pray the words as you read them if you cannot look and remember them 🙏 and please know that daily prayer will give you the help that GOD wants you to have. Thessalonians 5:16-18 "Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of GOD in Christ Jesus for you." Daily prayer is the key to success in politics and much of life, if only more would practice it 🙏
I'm not kidding, this is a killer hurricane!! I honestly would get on my knees and pray to God to forgive your many, many sins!! God is merciful and compassionate and if you are sincere about your contrition,God just might send the hurricane back to where it came from !!! God is in the forgiveness and miracle business!!! It's a killer, pray,pray and pray as you drive to a safe place!!! Please
Praying for all in Florida, keep safe,love from NZ x
Outstanding weather report from New Zealand. You answered many of the questions I have about Milton. I live 100 miles north of Tampa, in the center of the state, so wind will be our problem. We are not in an evacuation area. Thanks again and keep us in your thoughts and prayers.
They first said Ocala was on target....keep an eye out, if it moves again. Be safe ⛈️⛈️
Love to all people's in Tampa bay to any that's facing that Strom stay safe may god bless yous Prayers 🙏 and love coming from New Zealand
Sending love and prayers to you guys.
Do what you need to do to be safe. From NZ ❤
You certainly are my friend, take care, all the best from New Zealand
Brilliant reporting Phil and team...praying for all in Florida. We have friends in Tampa...so really not nice
Stay safe all over there 🎉 from NZ
Excellent explanation.
Thanks to Phil and the team!..superb report..can always count on this weather Chanel 😊..from Cairns
Was hoping there would be a video from you guys on this!
Brilliant report WeatherWatchTV
STAY SAFE everyone in and around Tampa and Florida.
Great job all the way from New Zealand 🇳🇿 a place I know pretty well. I live in Spacecoast FL close to Cape Canaveral 4 miles in . We prepared but it is in Gods hands .
Omigosh!
Thinking of you guys and praying for yr safety!
@@deannaway8499 thank you !
Excellent reporting especially for those of us in Fla.
Thank you very much.
@@krystel2856 I agree!
Had a look at the tide chart for Tampa Bay. High tide 0600 Florida time. Worried for our friends in Dunedin.@@WeatherWatchTV
Who knew we’d get such awesome coverage of Hurricane Milton from New Zealand? How awesome ❤
Thank you kelly - where are you from?
Thanks for the update Phil. I hope for the best.
Thank you for your news report. It is much better than any channel in Florida, which is tragic for all of us in the state!
Thinking of you guys...it must be terrifying. Saying prayers. BE SAFE.
love from NZ...🙏
He's the Best Weather man on Earth. All the way from Australia... Stay Safe Florida...
Thank you from Sarasota Florida.
Stay safe!
@@WeatherWatchTV Thank you. Keep up the Great Work.
@@tommy-time5240 I hope you evacuate if necessary.....houses can't be trusted with storm surge...God bless✝️
THANKS FOR THE INF.
as a resident of northern california i can fully appreciate the evacuation orders coming down. Being told "leave or you will die" have been said here many times and when a wildfire is bearing down on you, you leave.
Very good explanation. Much appreciated.
Phil is absolutely awesome !
Great overview, thanks!
Pray for everyone in Florida 🇺🇸✝️✝️
Im in Georgia but lord i hope all of you that have to leave yor homes return back to as little damage as possible 🙏🏾. I couldn't imagine going through that
Very good commentary
Brilliant overview of this tragic weather event thank you. Our hearts go out to our many American Friends
Thank you kindly.
Ha, your report was better than all the U.S channels, Phil! 👍
He's very factual, not trying to terrify the viewer yet conveying the message that if you don't evacuate the coastal regions, you will die. That's a weirdly pleasant balance.
@@beenaplumber8379 Yes, he's very detailed in his reprorting.....
Keep it up Phil! Good honest reporting! As someone who grew up in Florida and now live in New Zealand, I’m surprised to learn something new with that tidbit about the ocean shelf.
We used to have hurricane parties in Florida for anything below a cat 4… Something about this tells me people aren’t going to have the same attitude. Prays out to all those in its path! 🙏
Thank you very much! I find US Geography so awesome :)
Indeed! I’d say geography is one of the more important disciplines in understanding meteorology, playing a huge role in weather patterns like it does here in NZ, albeit on a larger scale. For example, the influence that the Rocky Mountains, Gulf of Mexico, and deserts of the South West have on severe weather over the greater Continental US. Once you understand that, it’s easy to see why it’s a breeding ground for Tornados.
A hurricane of cat 5 strength we hope we never get in Aust & NZ waters
God bless them all and there pets we are all praying for you around the world..nz
I was *just* now wishing for this!!! Thank you!
Pam
This is a better explanation than the US networks have put out, thanks.
Wow, thank you!
Your a long way from home Phil but it does sound spooky. Thanks
Excellent. High quality weather channel.
Brasil
Thank you
For my friends in NZ and AUS , Florida’s soil is already saturated with rain water for last 2 weeks
Sending love and prayers fm NZ❤❤❤
Soil in Florida is pretty saturated year round due to frequent rainfall and having a low water table. Drainage is pretty poor as well because it’s so flat. Never takes too much rain to flood it.
Thank you very much 🌎🌹🧬🧬🧬🇺🇲
I have a friend in Frostproof which is just inland from Tampa. He has gone south to the north end of the keys to stay with friends. He isnt holding much hope for his house to survive. Thoughts are with all in it's path.
Thanks mate
Katrina was different. New Orleans sits in a basin, below sea level. They also had the issue of Lake Pontchartrain topping the dike.
Chad Meyers on CNN just repeated what I basically said - the storm surge with Milton is like Katrina, it won't likely ease as it moves in. But yes, certainly NOLA is partially below sea level which complicates it much more for that event.
Can the low pressure go below 900 ?- thanks heaps for the post and explanation , always watch your feed and always learn so much 😊
Yes it can - and it did yesterday when it got down to 897. (Currently 902 as of 8pm ET).
Hi Phil, what actually influences, or determines the path a hurricane will take? Probably a big subject,thanks david
Hi there David. Put simply storms that form at the equator track to the poles. So hurricanes often initially track east to west in the trade winds, then they peel off and head north-east towards the pole (Coriolis effect). But along this journey they get what we call "steering" - which is when a high pressure zone acts like a boulder in a stream and change the current.... hurricanes prefer the path of leas resistance so they often get nudged in a direction along the edges of these powerful high pressure areas (gently nudged, or sometimes rushed/forced). If the hurricane is trapped with high pressure around it, it can get wind shear (when the the top of the storm gets its head cut off like from a wind powered buzz saw!) and the storm falls apart. Finally, the sea and land beneath them can power them up - weaken them. So quite a few moving parts, but modelling these days is getting exceptionally accurate at picking tracking ... but it's still not perfect.
THE WATER TEMP IS 85 DEGREES SO IT WILL KEEP ITS CAT 5 STATUS
I have been following the progress of Milton, hot on the heels of last week's hurricane and thus delivering a double-hit as much of the debris has not been cleared from the last one, thus becoming the source of projectiles that will hammer structures. The storm surge will be in the region of 5m in some areas.
What blows me away is the politicization of the source of increasing weather events - belief in climate change has become a party issue and it should not be - it's science that is based on experience, observation and record. Yet some totally irresponsible extremists are now suggesting a conspiracy theory that the hurricanes are not created by climate change but engineered with powerful lasers to support climate change. It beggars belief that anyone would be that gullible, but people believe on party lines.
The TRUE story of Nikola Tesla - told by Lt. Col. Thomas Bearden - Free Energy device explained !!
Type that in the youtube search it's a presentation from 1980s
I live on East coast of FL They call where I live “the highlands”. I’m 27’ above sea level Don’t worry far enough away from water no storm surge near my house. Just how flat FL is
Incredible - thanks for the local geography info.
Milton was the strongest Gulf of Mexico Hurricane since Hurricane Rita of 2005
Hi, I’m in Florida and I can’t find the information I need to answer a question I have.
How close does Hurricane Milton need to be to Florida before it’s possible to predict precisely where it will make landfall? Thank you! Kelly in Orlando
Hi Kelly, good question - and usually it's within 12 to 6 hours that you can really nail that. But large hurricanes "wobble" sideways and this can sometimes see them last minute moving in a certain direction. This actually happened last night, where it wobbled 30 miles southwards off track... before correcting itself in the morning. Most computer models should be fairly similar when you wake up tomorrow, which will help clarify things further.
@@WeatherWatchTV THANK YOU! I appreciate your reply!! It’s very helpful. Great channel - I subscribed💕
The image at 2:23 seems WAY OFF. Every other source has the storm halfway across Florida (right on top of me) by 7AM Thurs.
This is New Zealand time I believe. So 7 am for them is 12 am for US citizens
Thanks for letting us know - that graphic is from CNN and you're right, it is showing incorrect times... it's showing NZ times, despite it saying ET. Appreciate you pointing that out, we will let CNN know (and avoid using this map in the future).
Philip what role are the recent geomagnetic storms from the sun playing in powering Milton??
I don't think there is much impact - but little science on this.
Bless all
I am in Lakeland Florida. We are in it's path.
You and Orlando being more inland will be safer than this projected. Orlando is looking a category 1-2 hurricane, Lakeland could still get a 3 but at the very least, storm surge won’t be a major threat. I’d try to move further into Orlando if you can though.
@@ascetic369 evacuate if you are in that area.....better to do that now. Please be safe ✝️
🙏🤍
It has been ages since I have seen one in there.
Legend😊
I'm glad I moved out of Florida after Andrew. Crazy to live on a sand, sea level peninsula that is hurricane alley for over 100 years of weather history. Matthew 7:24-27: Jesus says that those who hear his words and put them into practice are like a wise man who builds his house on a rock. The house stands firm against the winds, rains, and floods because it's built on a solid foundation. Those who hear his words but don't put them into practice are like a foolish man who builds his house on sand. The house falls with a great crash when the winds, rains, and floods beat against it.
Jesus's words have nothing to do with Florida you idiot. Our state's better off without you.
As a New Zealander who lives on an island I've never understood how so many expensive homes and highways and infrastructure exists in Florida's most vulnerable coastlines - it's remarkable really!!
Look at Tennessee, Georgia, north and south Carolina. He'll ur just as blind as our government, look and listen before you speak !
Hello! Have a nice day.
Im scared 😯
For Florida
Now, in tampa channels said, it is probably go way more south,I live in spring hill close to tampa,why you guys said still go to tampa.
We show the models at the time of broadcast. Precise landfall won't be known for another 12 to 18 hours.
It’s getting closer to high tide. Get your water wings ready and learn to swim
🙏
290kmh
ALL The models im seeing its coming too bradenton sarasota
And yet, there are people who will not evacuate. Bye bye!
My power is not out idk how yet but my nabirs is
FUN FUN FUN
North Port and Sarasota are in the bullseye 🎯. It will be farther south of Tampa. I guess ratings are more important than the facts.
It depends on which model you look at. We showed 3 different current examples, I couldn't care less about ratings.
I live about 20 miles west of Tampa. These models are not facts. There's no guarantee where this storm is going to hit until it makes landfall. Also, it doesn't matter where the eye makes landfall. We barely got any winds or rain from Helene, but we still didn't have power for 2 days.
@@danielletownsend4237 this is going to be a cat 5, it's southerly route will continue it's strength. It will be catastrophic. Reminds me of Andrew in 1992, just coming in opposite direction.
@@WeatherWatchTV North Port will be bullseye 🎯. Please warn all of them. Sometimes you have to go out on a limb. I know what has been said. It will happen
Milton rowined erevething
Yeah but Phil, you can't have climate change on a flat earth.. Me mate Spider told me that down the pub and he's no idiot. He knows 37 words with more than five letters...
Lol!!! :) (actual lol)
🩷🩷🙏🏿🙏🏿🩷🩷
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why are you not talking about the destruction brought to Mexico, do they not count!!
Because at the time of broadcasting this it was already moving past Mexico.
Maybe Donald Trump can start praying against this? From Australia 2371 "it is about time that USA politics takes a back seat"?
chewsday?
huh
🤣
Whenzday...... 😂
Fush an Chupz
Please worship the CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, THE LORD GOD and try not to worry too much about the differences between the different religions and denominations, try to think about the similarities and the things they may have in common more than the differences. Daily prayer is a fundamental part that many people do not practice although it is encouraged.
🙏
"CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, LORD GOD, I beg you to never force me to worship any false god or object and I ask you for forgiveness for my sins and immorality. Thank you for everything. Amen."
Please pray this now, pray the words as you read them if you cannot look and remember them 🙏 and please know that daily prayer will give you the help that GOD wants you to have.
Thessalonians 5:16-18
"Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of GOD in Christ Jesus for you."
Daily prayer is the key to success in politics and much of life, if only more would practice it 🙏
I'm not kidding, this is a killer hurricane!! I honestly would get on my knees and pray to God to forgive your many, many sins!! God is merciful and compassionate and if you are sincere about your contrition,God just might send the hurricane back to where it came from !!! God is in the forgiveness and miracle business!!! It's a killer, pray,pray and pray as you drive to a safe place!!! Please