Milton's Landfall + A Signifcant Tornado Outbreak

Florida can't catch a break.

This has been one of the more ridiculous weather days I can remember recently. As residents were likely planning to make their final preparations for Hurricane Milton across Florida, a significant tornado outbreak with strong to possibly even violent tornadoes took shape through much of the day.

And now, major category 3 Hurricane Milton is moving ashore as I write this.

This storm has been well forecasted in terms of its practical human impacts thus far. Significant kudos should be given to the National Hurricane Center and local National Weather Service forecast offices for their work. Now, let’s get to the big three.

The Big Three

1. A significant tornado outbreak occurred today across much of Florida. Multiple large tornadoes were caught on camera from coast to coast, with significant damage reported. There have been 16 tornadoes reported thus far, but that is likely a severe undercount as several tornadoes occurred over open land, which are likely not quite in the database.

2. The outbr…