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Stephen Mullens
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Instructional Professor of Meteorology working to spin up a MET program at U Florida. I ask smart people dumb questions. #radar #tropics #summer
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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.

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As for size, the hurricane models show Milton's hurricane winds at 115 to 140 miles in diameter. Shown here is the biggest radius shown in the hurricane models. (Note the distance is shown in nautical miles, so 120nmi = 138mi.)

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Stephen Mullens
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Instructional Professor of Meteorology working to spin up a MET program at U Florida. I ask smart people dumb questions. #radar #tropics #summer
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