Look at this map of the UK mainland.
The two blue dots are Plymouth in the Southwest, my hometown, and Glasgow in Scotland.
The distance between them is roughly the size of the area effected by hurricane #Milton.
In other words, it's so big and so powerful it could wipe out England, Wales, and a big chunk of Scotland.
I mean.
FUCK!
I expect it will be 6-8 hrs of increasing wind/rain and flooding from start to finish. I will post camera links Wednesday morning so ppl can see the wind and storm surge before cameras go out.
@Bliss I hope you and yours remain safe 🙏🏼
Thank you! Im in NY but my first responder training is kicking in to help others understand the magnitude of danger.
@stueytheround You're about right. Bear in mind, though, that the strongest winds are only in a roughly 50 km radius from the eye, with gale force winds are about 140 km out, as of the most recent advisory. The next update is due in about 20 minutes. So, while the storm, as a whole, can cover most of the British Isles, the actual path of significant damage is rather smaller, roughly Manchester to Birmingham, and catastrophic damage is limited to a very narrow swath within that.
@POOetryma @stueytheround , also, it's relatively flat down that away. The rivers and canals, swamp might slow its roll.
@LadyZurk @stueytheround The biggest threats from tropical cyclones isn't the wind. That only affects a relatively small area for a brief time. No, the biggest threat is rain. Tropical weather systems can unleash ungodly amounts of rain. Hurricane Harvey dumped almost 5 FEET (almost 1.5 meters) of rain in a small region of Texas over several days. Here in Charleston, South Carolina, we got about 2 feet of rain from Hurricane Joaquin, though it stayed far out to sea.
@LadyZurk @stueytheround Tropical systems take days to dissipate, but in the meantime, they can dump biblical amounts of water hundreds of miles inland, causing widespread flooding, landslides and other misery, adding to the damage and death toll.
@stueytheround We do things big on this side of the pond. 😢
@stueytheround
yep, you got it.