Milton is the hurricane that scientists feared Climate change has caused such a strong and fast storm to break out in the Gulf of Mexico. When Hurricane Milton moved from a category 1 storm to a category 5 storm within 12 hours yesterday, climatologists and meteorologists were stunned. NBC6's John Morales, a veteran television meteorologist from South Florida, choked up on the air describing how quickly and dramatically the storm intensified. For most people, a 50 millibar drop in pressure means nothing; the meteorologist understands, as Morales said in the middle of the broadcast, that “it's just terrible.” Florida is still clearing Helen; this storm is spinning much faster, it's more compact and organized. In a sense, Milton is exactly the type of storm that scientists have been warning about; Michael Wehner, a climatologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, called it shocking, but not surprising. “One of the things we know is that in a warmer world, the stro