A Florida meteorologist and hurricane expert became visibly emotional on air while reporting on the incredible growth of Hurricane Milton last week.
Storm expert John Morales had to pause midway through his NBC broadcast while discussing the storms raging in Yucatan, Mexico and other states along the Gulf of Mexico.
“This is just an unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable hurricane. It's coming down.” he said He was broadcast on air with his voice choked up.
“It's down 50 millibars in 10 hours. I apologize. This is just horrible.”
Morales went on to explain that unseasonably high temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico caused Hurricane Milton and pushed Hurricane Helen just last week.
“Maximum sustained wind speed is 160 miles per hour. And that's ramping up in the Gulf of Mexico, where the winds, and therefore the oceans, are very, incredibly, incredibly hot. As you can imagine, record heat. That's right,” Morales said.
“You know what's driving it. No need to say: global warming, climate change. [are] This has led to a growing threat to the Yucatan Peninsula, including Mérida, Progreso and other areas. ”
Just last week, Morales published an article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists detailing how the growth and destruction of Hurricane Helen was more than just a fluke. “Omen of the future” — The future is just a few days away.
“Now I look at storms differently, and I communicate differently. I don't need someone to say, 'You've changed' to know that I'm not the same.” “Perhaps those who know me as a non-alarmist meteorologist who just tells the facts won't be able to get used to the new me,” Morales wrote in the article.
“That's why they bicker and accuse me of exaggerating the threat of new weather. But no one can hide from the truth.”
Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall in the Tampa Bay area on Wednesday or Thursday. It will continue northeast, passing through Florida and into the Atlantic Ocean.
It is expected to be the second strongest hurricane to hit the Gulf Coast.
