MILTON - Weakend to a CAT 1
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Pretty funny that we have to rely on aljazeera for the truth! US media STILL reporting it as a Cat 3 landfall! I have reviewed available wind data from the area and can't find any that comes close to even Cat 2, but there aren't wind gages, that I know of, right on the beach where it came on shore. However, the Sarasota airport, close to where it came onshore, only shows max sustained winds of 40 mph! Max surge I have found was at Ft. Myers, at 6 feet, but again, that was pretty far south of eye. A gage on the coast at St. Pete beach had max sustained winds of about 65 mph; well north of the eye.
I did find some home weather stations where the eye passed the coast, and the lowest air pressure was consistent with Cat 3, but there is not necessarily a one-one correlation between pressure and wind.