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Sunday River is opening to passholders tomorrow as well. Looks like tonight is the last good snowmaking window in a while (tomorrow night looks marginal and with a temperatureinversion it'llonly be cold at lower elevations). Models show a more favorable pattern in the 8-10 day range so hopefully it materializes so more resorts can open before Thanksgiving.

Lakeland now getting hurricane gusts as well, and they're pretty far inland.

Tampa Airport still reporting 85 mph gusts.

SPG has over 10 inches of rain in the last 3 hours.

Wow, Sarasota now gusting to over 100 mph on the backside. https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=KSRQ&hours=72

https://x.com/StevePetyerak/status/1844177610089300404?t=-1bVNg4O1azsv1beNafBKw&s=19 Port Charlotte from an hour ago, it's likely getting worse now.

Naples

Insane rain rains between Brandon and Tampa.

On top of the winds at SPG, they also recorded over 5 inches of rain in the last hour. That's an insane hourly rainfall rate.

Tampa international now gusting to 82 mph. St Petersburg must be north of 90.

Some impressive velocities over Anna Maria Islands.

Punta Gorda (well south of the center) gusting to 79 mph.

These are awesome, thanks so much. Gusting to 93.2 mph now.

The worst surge is usually a fair deal south and east of the center (and people sometimes forget to account for the size of the eye in that equation) and for Milton will probably be from Venice to Port Charlotte. Though we'll see what happens in Sarasota once the wind shifts direction. On a related note, Sarasota airport recorded its first hurricane force gust a few minutes ago.

Recon pass just now still shows a formidable storm. Pressure held fairly steady from the previous mission (in the mid to high 940s) with flight level winds of 110 knots. Edit: Dropsonde supports 952 mb.