Looks like Milton, the storm with a cyclone center, has appeared.
It’s been a tropical depression filling the whole Gulf since this time last week, and we on the mid-west FL coast have gotten rain from around its edges.
But now it's called Milton since it formed a central cyclone, but it shows no direction path yet, because NOAA hasn't shown any direction graphics yet.
I think the FL west coast can ride this one out if it heads east, northeast. My guess is that it won’t have enough water buildup in time to do much more than rain damage overlaid on what Helene did, which varied all the way up the west coast until Cedar Key and the Big Bend, when it became a 500 yr event throughout the Southeast state.
NOAA gives updates every 3-4-6 hours when a cyclone gets moving.
Seeing as how it's sat for a week, raining, it might not be able to build up mph speed on the water. So even but there's been a so-called 'front' to the East that's held it still, Milton likely won’t get beyond Cat 1, and it'll likely bedevil Florida's west coast over the next week or so.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php?basin=atlc&fdays=7
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