Florida meteorologist John Morales says it was the knowledge of the impact the Category Five superstorm will have that left him almost overcome with emotion during a recent broadcast.
The veteran weather forecaster whose emotional prediction of Hurricane Milton’s impact went viral says that meteorologists have long known that this once-in-a-century superstorm was coming.
READ MORE - Hurricane Milton: Dozens of flights to Florida cancelled as US faces 'storm of the century' Morales says is has become increasingly concerned about the impact of increasingly-rapid climate change, adding: "These symptoms of the changing climate has changed me from a cool cucumber to somebody that’s certainly more agitated and in a bit of dismay about what’s going on.”
And at present, the Florida city of Tampa is right in the firing line. Tampa General Hospital, the area's main hospital and only trauma centre is built on an island only a few feet above sea level. It’s currently protected by a 15-foot “AquaFence” and all patients have been moved from the building’s ground floor.
“Yes they can control the weather,” the member of the US Congress for Georgia told her 1.2million Twitter followers, ”It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.”
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