Live: Royal Caribbean meteorologist shares Hurricane Milton news

With all of South and Central Florida lower than a tornado look ahead to the duration of the evening of October 9, the impact of Hurricane Milton is all of a sudden moving toward the mainland. What remains to be unknown is where the storm will hit.

Or not it truly is something that Royal Caribbean Chief Meteorologist Craig Setzer has been staring at.

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"An even deal to talk about this morning, and what I will likely be staring at at the present time. First, the heading of Milton has slowly turned left overnight. I discussed this last night and here's where we stand at eight a.m. Wed. The storm is heading almost due NE, so any left wobbles at the present time would obviously take it closer to Tampa (Bay). But as we meet up with to landfall, the storm would show more northward/left to go without delay over Tampa Bay," he wrote on X, the previous Twitter.

Setzer tried to offer a proof for what a "wobble" means.

"So at the present time we should be staring on the wobbles and what contribution they this overall motion. That's miles important at this moment, to now not get too pondering the "instant" heading, where the storm is pointing at any brief moment, but to appear the bigger picture, and overall heading, and what any wobbles are doing to it," he added.

Setzer made it clear that even with the storm moving closer to land, which is reasonably hard to predict its path.

"Wobbles left clearly take it closer to Tampa, wobbles right take it closer to Ft Myers. That's probably going the core will move somewhere in between or per chance over those two locations, but I've learned with hurricanes, never commit to 1 final result (specifically this a protracted way remote from landfall) because hurricanes have a process of humbling even definitely the right meteorologists," he wrote.

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Royal Caribbean's Chief Meteorologist explains wind shear

There are some hopes that the storm will weaken from its current Category Four/5 state.

"Which that you would have the choice to appear that wind shear is commencing to act on Milton. The eye has become cloud-filled and the heart is now changing into displaced on the northwest side of the foremost convection," he wrote.

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Some see that as a favorable sign.

"This process was well forecast, nevertheless, will it happen soon enough to substantially weaken Milton earlier than landfall? Possibly now not since the core is intensely deep in the atmosphere and can maintain some internal structure and momentum, while a really good buy of the convection gets stripped away," he added.

It'd weaken, but which is now not how Setzer sees it.

"Which suggests, all the people taking a look at radar and satellite proclaiming which is weakening shall be jumping the gun. All that cat 5 energy is now not going to just disappear. It should still be felt, just now not as concentrated over a small intense area. In order this weakening starts, the wind field will quickly enlarge," he shared.

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