...lemme back up and explain my train of thought...
First you mentioned the turbines slowing the air down, which got me thinking about where the humid air goes, or more tot he point, where it doesn't.
this immediately brought up north carolina in my head, which in turn, then you mentioned how significant it would be, and I started thinking; imagine all that hot, humid air, trapped over the gulf of mexico, getting the energy it would normaly use to move bled off so it can't really go anywhere, until a high enough pressure system comes along, pouring enough cold air that it finally forms a hurricane....
Normally, hurricanes don't come very far inland, because they lose force as they come over land, and just turn into heavy rains and work themselves out, but I see two possible scenarios here, depending on how milton operated (I don't know nearly enough about the exact details of the storm to do more than guess);
the storm had enough energy to stay a tropical storm/hurricane as it made landfall, working its way into areas that normally have heavy rainfall after a hurricane, but never see the wind blow through, ravaging everything in their path.
like normal, the storm settled down to ordinary storm clouds, but because it had so much hot, humid air as it made its way northward, it was able to drop a metric fuckton of rain, creating the floods we see todya, without necessarily flinging somebody's tractor into the next zipcode...
There's other possibilities as well, but those are the ones that initially occurred to me...
...hurricane milton comes to mind...
...lemme back up and explain my train of thought...
First you mentioned the turbines slowing the air down, which got me thinking about where the humid air goes, or more tot he point, where it doesn't.
this immediately brought up north carolina in my head, which in turn, then you mentioned how significant it would be, and I started thinking; imagine all that hot, humid air, trapped over the gulf of mexico, getting the energy it would normaly use to move bled off so it can't really go anywhere, until a high enough pressure system comes along, pouring enough cold air that it finally forms a hurricane....
Normally, hurricanes don't come very far inland, because they lose force as they come over land, and just turn into heavy rains and work themselves out, but I see two possible scenarios here, depending on how milton operated (I don't know nearly enough about the exact details of the storm to do more than guess);
There's other possibilities as well, but those are the ones that initially occurred to me...