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#Hurricane #Helene has made landfall in the Big Bend of Florida as a Category 4 with max winds of 140 mph - the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the Big Bend of Florida on record (since 1851). The old record was the Cedar Keys Hurricane (1896) with max winds of 125 mph.

#Helene is the 4th US Gulf Coast landfalling #hurricane of 2024 (Beryl, Debby, Francine). Only 5 other years on record (since 1851) have had 4+ Gulf hurricane landfalls: 1886, 1909, 1985, 2005, 2020.

Helene’s Cat 4 landfall gives the U.S. a record eight Cat 4 or Cat 5 Atlantic hurricane landfalls in the past eight years (2017-2024), seven of them being continental U.S. landfalls. That’s as many Cat 4 and 5 landfalls as occurred in the prior 57 years.

First NHC official forecast for #Helene when it was labeled Potential Tropical Cyclone 9 (#PTC9) (left) vs observed (via Alex Boreham) (right). In general, I'm not sure how you can do much better than that.

Hurricane Milton managed to intensify furiously from a tropical storm to category 5 in just 24 hours. Category 5 in October has only happened one other time in the Gulf of Mexico in the satellite era (1966 onwards). That other time was Michael in 2018.

#Milton's pressure has fallen to 897 hPa - the lowest pressure in an Atlantic #hurricane since Wilma in 2005 (882 hPa).

A taste of winter on the way as air from the Arctic pushes south into Europe. Snow for some (even at low elevation).