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Much of Florida under state of emergency as possible tropical storm forms in Gulf of Mexico

www.nbcnews.com Much of Florida under state of emergency as possible tropical storm forms in Gulf of Mexico

The National Hurricane Center says there’s a 70% chance the system will become a tropical storm by Monday and a 90% chance overall.

The National Hurricane Center says there’s a 70% chance the system will become a tropical storm by Monday and a 90% chance overall.

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With the oceans very warm around Florida that system could do a lot of things quick.
- None of which I'd want to be in Florida for.
  
  I mean, tropical storm aside would you want to be in Florida anyway?
I'm posting daily about this one in !tropicalweather@lemmy.world.

Right now the intensity models are predicting a CAT 1 with landfall happening sometime between Tuesday and Wednesday. Of course there's plenty of time for those predictions to change. 😛
Time to drink from that fed trough
Since when does a possible tropical storm deserve a state of emergency?
- It cuts through a bunch of red tape, and we haven't had a hurricane target the state this year. Right now, NHC is predicting a Cat 1 hurricane. That's only hurricane party weather. Unless you live in a low lying area or are susceptible to storm surge. That prediction will probably change though.
  
  A Cat 1 will still cause a lot of problems in North Florida. Since they don't get hit as often they aren't used to it, the infrastructure isn't ready for it, the trees aren't ready for it, etc. I remember one fucking up Tallahassee not too many years ago.
  
  Yea, it sounds like DeSantis doesn’t want to actually do his “Governor of Florida” duties since he’s out campaigning and just cut a huge chunk of the state responses over to the federal government.
  
  Hurricane party?
- Honestly? I don't think it does, at least not this early, and not covering so much of the state. I think this is DeSantis trying to look like he cares about people, is a person who is forward-looking and proactive, and (above all) trying to improve his poll numbers.
Uh-oh! Who's got the sharpie?
“It not immediately clear if the storm would reach hurricane strength…”

Excellent proofreading, NBC!
- What wrong with it?
  
  Why use many words when few words do.
Gulf hurricanes are going to be absolutely devastating this year. The heat in the gulfs water is going to absolutely super charge them. Those of us in the South East United States can only hope that they move quick.
Forecast models have the storm curving to the northeast toward Florida, coming ashore along the Gulf coast north of Tampa near the Big Benda area and then heading diagonally across the state to emerge again in the Atlantic Ocean near southeast Georgia.

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