Follow the latest updates as Hurricane Milton plows toward Florida.
John Morales, one of South Florida’s longest running meteorologists, was delivering his weathercast for WTVJ/NBC6 in Miami on Monday when his voice cracked. Beside him, on a split screen, an image of Hurricane Milton whorled, giant, angry and red.
The storm had just made the leap to a Category 5 monster that was churning toward Florida’s storm-battered west coast, much of it still in splinters after being struck by Hurricane Helene on Sept. 26.
“It’s just an incredible, incredible, incredible hurricane,” Mr. Morales said of Milton, closing his eyes and slightly shaking his head. “It has dropped. …”
His voice faltered. He looked down, drew a shaky breath and continued, “… it has dropped 50 millibars in 10 hours.” For viewers who didn’t understand the staggering implications of this barometric plunge, Mr. Morales’s choked delivery said enough. “I apologize,” he said in a quavering voice. “This is just horrific.”
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