it's a very unusual track, check out this graphic

Oct 7, 2024
11:06:13am

Buffalo Political Junky

Basically the only Cat 5 hurricane ever to have this motion.

Milton is the only category 5 hurricane in Atlantic records (HURDATv2, 1851-present) to have any sort of a southeasterly motion vector: pic.twitter.com/XI87XnDk6n
— Tomer Burg (@burgwx) October 7, 2024

https://twitter.com/burgwx/status/1843330270243742049

Must have been a pretty unique pressure setup to lead to this.

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I haven't been following Milton. How does it have an almost dead-east direction? Did it form off the coast of Mexico...

cougfanblue Assistant to the manager

10:47am

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JimmyZ

10:48am

East of Mexico, curning in the gulf

Heinz57

10:50am

I know that's where it is. I'm asking where it came from (and I assume you mean right).

cougfanblue

10:51am

Formed in the Gulf of Mexico

Tare

10:53am

That's not normal, right? Seems like it's usually a weather system that moves from the coast of Africa...

cougfanblue

10:55am

Not the norm but it does happen

Tare

10:57am

It looks like the third storm this season that originated in the Gulf of Mexico

BYUMizzou

11:02am

Gotcha. I clearly don't follow this stuff very closely.

cougfanblue

11:03am

it's a very unusual track, check out this graphic

Buffalo

11:06am

Go to this link. Below the video, the first graphic is a track of the storm -

BYUMizzou

10:55am

Thanks - that's what I was looking for

cougfanblue

10:56am

Formed in the gulf, hit an eastward jet stream coming out of Texas that turned it east. As it gets closer to Tampa and

WDaddy

11:11am

Proof that Texas blows.

the rural juror

11:31am

RE: Proof that Texas blows.

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