Looking at Hurricane Milton by the numbers
As a massive recovery effort continues across Florida, AccuWeather is taking a look at where Milton stands in terms of things like the total number of tornadoes and power outages.
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00:00Since the storm hit Florida, Hurricane Milton, there have been over 3.8 million accounts
00:07restored for power.
00:10So right now about 97% of the state is electrified and operational.
00:16There's about 369,000 that are still outstanding.
00:26This is a monumental power recovery there, and electrical utility crews have been assembled
00:32in huge numbers out there.
00:33So again, at one point we had 3.4 to 3.5 million addresses in Florida without electricity,
00:39and now we're down to only about 9% of that still without power.
00:43So huge progress by the numbers as we look at Milton.
00:46We have had gusts of wind measured as high as 105 mph, but sometimes you get an isolated
00:51report that kind of outpaces the others.
00:54We've had numbers of reports here, four, five, six reports around the St. Petersburg
00:58area of gusts of wind over 100 mph, and total rainfall 18.87 inches.
01:03We've been talking about some of these numbers for a while.
01:06Here we are learning more about the number of actual confirmed tornadoes.
01:10Storm surveys are coming in, and we are up to 17 confirmed so far, but that number is
01:16rising.
01:17And just for historical context, Beryl earlier this year produced 68 separate tornadoes.
01:23That's the fifth most for any land-falling hurricane.
01:26Twenty years ago, look at Ivan, that produced 118 separate tornadoes.
01:29But one thing worth pointing out, we had some strong tornadoes with this one.
01:33We had three separate EF3s that were confirmed out of this one.
01:37You have to go back to 1967 with Hurricane Buehler that had eight confirmed EF3s or F3s
01:42at that time from that one.
01:44And by the numbers, the AccuWeather preliminary estimate for economic damage and loss tied
01:48to Milton, $160 to $180 billion.
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