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Looking at Hurricane Milton by the numbers
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10/15/2024
As a massive recovery effort continues across Florida, AccuWeather is taking a look at where Milton stands in terms of things like the total number of tornadoes and power outages.
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Since the storm hit Florida, Hurricane Milton, there have been over 3.8 million accounts
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restored for power.
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So right now about 97% of the state is electrified and operational.
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There's about 369,000 that are still outstanding.
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This is a monumental power recovery there, and electrical utility crews have been assembled
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in huge numbers out there.
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So again, at one point we had 3.4 to 3.5 million addresses in Florida without electricity,
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and now we're down to only about 9% of that still without power.
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So huge progress by the numbers as we look at Milton.
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We have had gusts of wind measured as high as 105 mph, but sometimes you get an isolated
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report that kind of outpaces the others.
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We've had numbers of reports here, four, five, six reports around the St. Petersburg
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area of gusts of wind over 100 mph, and total rainfall 18.87 inches.
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We've been talking about some of these numbers for a while.
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Here we are learning more about the number of actual confirmed tornadoes.
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Storm surveys are coming in, and we are up to 17 confirmed so far, but that number is
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rising.
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And just for historical context, Beryl earlier this year produced 68 separate tornadoes.
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That's the fifth most for any land-falling hurricane.
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Twenty years ago, look at Ivan, that produced 118 separate tornadoes.
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But one thing worth pointing out, we had some strong tornadoes with this one.
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We had three separate EF3s that were confirmed out of this one.
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You have to go back to 1967 with Hurricane Buehler that had eight confirmed EF3s or F3s
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at that time from that one.
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And by the numbers, the AccuWeather preliminary estimate for economic damage and loss tied
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to Milton, $160 to $180 billion.
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For more stories, visit nyseagrant.org.
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