The Weather

I should think North East Bristol just flooded!

Bloody monsoon!

Easton/Eastville.
Fire engine closed Stapleton Road by the Black Swan of Rovers origins.Trying to stop it flooding I assume.
Etc.

Some roads and even pavements under water near me.

I blame immigration.

Millions in Florida told to leave as Biden makes Hurricane Milton 'life or death' warning..by Aoife Walsh

ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/1024/cpsprodpb/941d/live/d9ba53d0-85d5-11ef-822c-a50726bfda2e.jpg

Millions of people in Florida are rushing to leave their homes, as Hurricane Milton races towards the state's west coast

Milton - a category five storm - is expected to hit the Tampa area tonight, packing ferocious winds of up to 165mph (270km/h)

US President Joe Biden warned that leaving was a matter of "life and death", as the state undertakes its largest evacuation effort in years

It comes less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene hit the Gulf Coast as a category four storm, killing at least 225 people across Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina

I wonder if Hooters on the island end of the causeway bridge will be kept open?
😂😂😂

Hurricane Milton spawns tornadoes and storm surge as it nears Florida..by Jude Sheerin, with Holly Honderich

ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/1024/cpsprodpb/73c2/live/9884ff10-8660-11ef-83dd-fbf1b9732cf0.jpg

Hurricane Milton, a category four storm packing 130mph (209km/h) winds, is going to be "deadly and catastrophic", officials are warning, as millions flee Florida for safety

The Miami office of the National Weather Service issued more tornado warnings by Wednesday afternoon - 41 - than on any other calendar day on record

The storm surge has begun on the south-west Florida coast, with the gauge at Naples already 4ft above normal levels, reaching the level of "minor flooding"

Milton is forecast to be at category three strength when it makes landfall as soon as 22:00 local time over southern Sarasota

US President Joe Biden slams a "reckless" promotion of "outright lies" by Trump and others about the federal government's response

It comes less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene hit the Gulf Coast as a category four storm, killing at least 225 people across Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina


At a campaign stop in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump doubled down on his criticism of the Biden administration's response to Hurricane Helene, calling it "the worst ever".

He also repeated a false claim that hurricane-disaster money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) was given to "illegal immigrants coming in", instead of to help out Americans affected by Helene.

The BBC Verify team fact-checked this, and determined the claim to be false.

Fema has two pots of money: a Disaster Relief Fund worth more than $20bn to spend on hurricanes and other natural disasters, and another to be spent on food, shelter and other services for migrants released by the Department of Homeland Security, with a budget of around $1bn for the last two years.

Trump appears to be conflating the two in his remarks.

Three million lose power and mains water cut in major city as Hurricane Milton batters Florida..by Owen Amos with Tom Bateman reporting from Florida

ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/1024/cpsprodpb/b45b/live/483c3060-86c8-11ef-822c-a50726bfda2e.jpg

Hurricane Milton has torn through Florida, bringing tornadoes, floods, and storm surges

More than three million homes and businesses are without power, and there have been "a number of deaths" reported on the Atlantic coast

In St Petersburg, on the west coast of the state, the water supply has been cut, a crane crashed into a newspaper building, and the roof of a Major League Baseball stadium was ripped off

Some parts of the state are having 1-in-1000 year amounts of rain

Milton is moving into the Atlantic, but will still produce hurricane-force winds and heavy rain over land

Florida begins recovery from Hurricane Milton as millions still without power..by Sophie Abdulla

ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/1024/cpsprodpb/3ac6/live/82431fd0-87cc-11ef-b6b0-c9af5f7f16e4.jpg

At least 16 people are confirmed dead after Hurricane Milton passed through Florida, though the total number of deaths could rise as rescue workers make their way through floodwaters and debris

More than two million homes and businesses are without power and thousands of people have been rescued from flooded areas

Officials are warning more flooding is likely in the coming days

Florida residents are being warned not to visit areas hit by Hurricane Milton, after it brought tornadoes, floods, and storm surges to the state



AI-generated images and misleading videos of Hurricane Milton circulate..By Emma Pengelly, Shayan Sardarizadeh and Olga Robinson

False videos of Hurricane Milton have been accumulating millions of views this week.

Yesterday, three images , external claiming to show flooding at Disney World in Florida began circulating far and wide on social media.

But the photos are not real and have been generated using AI.

One of them,, external purporting to show flooding outside Cinderella’s Castle has been viewed more than 60,000 times on X. BBC Verify has seen foreign news websites reporting on the flooding as fact, despite the photos being fakes.

Another video viewed 241,000 times on X said to show the hurricane “destroying everything in its path” was created with CGI. It was posted by a YouTube channel which makes fictional tornado videos.

Misleading footage was also being shared prior to Hurricane Milton making landfall.

On Monday an account on X reported, external what it called “breaking news”, saying Hurricane Milton was expected to cause “severe damage” to Florida, and posted a video of a moody, dark and foreboding sky over a beach.

It was filmed in Florida, but it was not the prelude to Hurricane Milton. In fact, the video was first shared more than three years ago, in June 2021, by a local resident who had managed to capture the phenomenon of asperitas clouds on camera; a rare cloud formation that can look like rippling waves.