If rapidly intensifying Hurricane Milton’s devolving core tracks northeastward from Orlando after landfall as projected, Brevard County would get socked by hurricane-force gusts and tropical storm-force sustained winds — with fiercer weather striking Titusville than Melbourne, said Bryan Norcross, a Fox Weather hurricane specialist.
“The corridor of heaviest rain and gustiest wind will be on the left side of the track with this storm. And that corridor is going to go, best we know, right through the Orlando area. North of there, up all the way to Jacksonville, is a corridor of what we think will be pretty extreme inland weather,” Norcross said.
“South of that line, which is more or less the track of the storm, there’s still going to be hurricane-force gusts and so forth. And, some water rise above normal high tide — but not extreme, because the winds will be coming off the land for the most part,” he said.
Sustained storm winds are calculated by recording an average speed during a 1-minute period, per the National Weather Service. Tropical storm winds range from 39 to 73 mph. Hurricane winds clock in at 74 mph and greater.