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NOAA changed Milton's heading on Hurricanes.gov to plead with people to listen to evacuation orders.
We'll all be very happy to feel silly if this doesn't go the way it looks like it's going to go. But please for the love of humanity get out of the way of this thing.
Did you mean https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ ? Your URL doesn't seem to work.
That's the same site yeah. Mine left an s off, I'll go fix it.
i don't understand how to use this website. where do i click on to see who needs to get out
If your address has "FL" in it, you should evacuate.
that is quite a lot of people
I'm not sure NOA is responsible for evacuation orders, IIRC they advise state and local governments on who should evacuate and it's up to the local government to coordinate and reach out to their populations.
You need to go to FloridaDisaster.org
The evacuation orders look super random. I guess it depends on the politics of the county. Great
I need only three things:
Bonus: Prediction path it will take.
I was thinking this would be very easy to visualize. From such important data sources you'd expect more.