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A Quick Look at Hurricane Milton Max Wind Gusts, Rainfall and Buoy Data

This is by no means a compressive summary, it’s what I could find using NWS data from various sources. I updated the max wind speed and added slides for the track and maximum wind speed with time (from NHC and USAtoday)

Here is the highest reported wind speeds

https://www.wfla.com/news/local-news/hurricane-milton-brings-100-mph-wind-gusts-to-tampa-bay/

Here are a few links to see details on the tornadoes

Jacksonville

https://www.weather.gov/jax/TropicalEventSummary

Miami

https://www.weather.gov/media/mfl/TropicalEventSummary/PSHMFL_2024AL09_Helene_Summary.pdf

Tampa

https://www.weather.gov/tbw/TropicalEventSummary

Beryl is expected to bring heavy rain and some flooding from east Texas into Missouri by Wednesday. The heavy rain track reaches Michigan by Thursday.

Warmer than normal temperatures are expected over most of the CONUS following the system for the third week of July.

A Look at the January 9-10th Storm and some impacts

This storm brought heavy snow to the Midwest and parts of the Great Lakes, then there were damaging winds over the eastern Seaboard, as well as flooding. Severe storms and over a dozen tornadoes occurred over the Southeast sections.

Severe Storms, on Thursday night (8-24-23) cause power outages, flooding and an EF1 tornado over Lower Michigan. This shows some preliminary reports from the storm last night.

Heavy Rain was forecast for yesterday afternoon into mid morning today. The slides below show the what actually happened.

We forecast heavy rain between I-94 and I-96 and that is exactly what did happen. The heaviest rainfall report showed 4.50 inches in Middleville, most of that area had between 1″ and 3″ of rain from the event.

Heavy Rainfall is expected over most of Lower Michigan from Monday Afternoon into Tuesday Morning

Heavy Rain is expected over most of the southern half of Lower Michigan between 2 pm Monday and 8 am Tuesday morning.

An unusually strong storm system for this time of year is expected to track east across Lower Michigan from Monday into Tuesday morning. This will be an occluded system, with the track of the surface low near I-94. It is typical for the heaviest precipitation to be within 100 miles of track of the surface low, but on the north it’s track. This system as a closed upper low with it and a coupled jet with it. The precipitable water reaches above 1.5 inches Monday afternoon over the southern 1/3 of Lower Michigan as this system tracks through the area. There is also good model continuity with this system so it gives me confidence that the heavy rainfall will happen. Just exactly were is questionable but I would have to believe between I-94 and Route 10, between Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning a large part of that area should see more than an inch of rainfall.