As it stands it will come in as the 6th strongest ever recorded hitting the Concus!!!

In the Pan Handle!!!

They appear to have noted a 9mb drop in 1 Hour!

A drop of 24mb over a 24hr period is 'bombing' for a storm so what would such a drop be? Thermonuclear????

How come it's not getting any BBC news Coverage ? Unlike Florence which hit land at a cat 1....!? Got so much attention!?

The region is full of Trump supporters.*

*that was a lame joke.

They'll probably need to re-issue the warning from when Irma hit Florida then:

To clarify, DO NOT shoot weapons @ #Irma. You won't make it turn around & it will have very dangerous side effectshttps://t.co/CV4Y9OJknv

— Pasco Sheriff (@PascoSheriff) September 10, 2017

If the lines on this map are correct then Michael just made landfall. 

https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/sat/satlooper.php?region=14L&product=vis

As close as it's possible to be, going by the 5-mph intervals that NHC use. The threshold is 157mph.

it did qith 155mph sustained winds 

This will be 'reassessed' after it passes and it will be a cat5 storm. Some folk are now posting a 917mb with 155mph winds ( 157mph is cat5)

CNN just had a rebar fence bent flat by the gusts....... it wasn't presenting much surface area to the winds but they still bent it like plastercine!

Well if the eye wall had to go somewhere then the best place would be an area of low population.

Which is precisely what it did as it passed over Tyndall AFB.

Yup Smerc! the rest just had 120mph winds to contend with!

Daughter sat with me from just prior to landfall so she has earned her " watching U.S. new channel" and " first major hauling ashore" wings...... there are time I'm almost pleased I had her........ and then I remember what I'm watching and what she has in store in her 'weather life'.......

Joke guys , joke!!!

Eyewall of Michael by Tyndall AFB. Full sunshine in eye! Experience of a lifetime. Now pray for the people affected. #flwx pic.twitter.com/ftVXHTP0km

— Basehunters Chasing (@Basehunters) October 10, 2018

Picture taken from inside the eyewall as it passed over..

https://mobile.twitter.com/Basehunters/status/1050088615550877698

Folk 'getting off lightly' away from Tyndall AFB.

See the force of #HurricaneMichael. Video from Brandon Clement and Live Storms Media shows a massive wave hitting a pier, roofs getting ripped off buildings and extreme winds.https://t.co/6OVnSOqLtp pic.twitter.com/yostIug9eF

— KATV News (@KATVNews) October 10, 2018

EDIT: That 'LOL' moment when you realise the person that blocked you can't post the twitter post you've posted as an image........

The Cyclone in Bay of Bengal about to make landfall in India, but no coverage at all as you would expect. Likely to do a lot of damage

But nobody does 'storm porn' like the U.S. BFTE! This is why I sat our lass down in front of it and what fun we have have watching it ashore!

It used to bug the heck out of me as the Caribbean got pounded without a mention whilst the U,S, was wall to wall storm chasers/news feeds as its remnants came ashore?

I really wish you'd contain yourself to the climate forums instead of ruining other threads on the forum.

If any remnants of Hurricane Michael does make it to our shores later on down the line as an ex-tropical system, I think it should be named Fish as a one off thing given what happened on this week 31 years ago - then it can be called Michael-Fish.

It came in as a 150 mile wide F2 Tornado fer christs sake!

Where was there ever an 'upside' to that???

We are all basically 'weather nuts' on here so there is no claiming 'ignorance' from our regulars.

So it reached a top end cat 4 at its peak with 155mph winds (just 1mph short of Cat 5). Tbh based on the presentation and flight data I suspect it will be revised to a cat 5. In fact I'm really surprised it was only considered to be a cat 4.

https://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/storms/TITLI.html

Cyclone Titli also rapidly intensified before making landfall

I expect this storm will be making the news in the coming days

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/hurricane-michael-path-florida-storm-surge-weather-forecast-track-today-2018-live-updates-coverage/ 

https://vimeo.com/294445348 

That footage looks too good to be real if I'm honest. I want to believe it but I've never seen footage that good before taken from the ground on land.

The lack of debris and damage makes me suspicious, but it could have been from when the storm had  significantly weakened overland.

A video from 2004 of hurricane Charlie as the eyewall passed over with 155mph gusts - at the end they are filming outside inside eye.

https://youtu.be/unV5KcSrY-I

I have seen a clip of a video filmed yesterday at that airbase east of Panama city with similar winds as that 155mph gusts - I'm desperatly seeking/ waiting for the full video to be uploaded.