Remember that winds are stronger the higher up you go if you are sheltering in a high-rise building, the lower floors will be safer than the upper floors.
If you are in the hurricane’s impact zone, now is the time to hunker down in your safe shelter and not be out driving. Michael is poised to be one of the most top-ten most intense hurricanes on record to make landfall in the U.S. A storm surge of over eight feet was already affecting the Panhandle, inundating many escape routes. At 1 pm EDT, the hurricane hunters found that Michael was still intensifying, with sustained winds of 150 mph and a central pressure of 919 mb.
Hurricane-force wind gusts, torrential rains, and a massive storm surge are belting Florida’s Panhandle as extremely dangerous Hurricane Michael closes in on an afternoon landfall. Note that Hurricane Maria of 2017 hit Puerto Rico with winds of 155 mph and a central pressure of 920 mb, and was virtually identical in intensity to Michael. hurricane (by pressure) since Camille of 1969, which had a 900 mb pressure, and the strongest by wind speed since Hurricane Andrew of 1992, which had 165 mph winds. This makes Michael the strongest landfalling mainland U.S.
Update: Hurricane Michael made landfall at 2 pm EDT Octonear Mexico Beach, FL with top sustained winds of 155 mph and a central pressure of 919 mb. Above: Radar image of Hurricane Michael at 11 am EDT October 10, 2018, from our wundermap.
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