🌀 Oct 8 late night post: Major Hurricane Milton remains a very pretty circle (when seen from space). Oh, to be a satellite right now. The future of Milton remains largely the same as before, and we are expecting landfall as a large category 3 storm starting about midnight tomorrow night. 🧵

One of the questions is Milton's intensity change vs size as it approaches landfall. As for intensity, comparing Milton's minimum pressures and max winds in hurricane models as it nears land, they show Milton as a Category 5 when we wake up and making landfall as a category 4 or 2 storm.