Hurricane Milton satellite image shows 'creepy' skull-like shape before it crashed into Florida

Satellite images of deadly hurricane Milton appeared to signifier a “creepy” skull-like signifier hours earlier it crashed into Florida.

Stu Ostro, elder meteorologist astatine The Weather Channel, posted a photograph of the sinister-looking Hurricane Milton connected Tuesday.

The meteorologist posted the photograph broadside by broadside with a likewise eerily shaped Hurricane Matthew, which killed astir 1,000 radical erstwhile it struck Haiti successful 2016.

Severe weather YouTuber Max Velocity also posted a photograph of Milton's "creepy skull" connected Tuesday.

CBS News reports astatine slightest 16 radical person died aft Hurricane Milton struck Florida connected Wednesday night, tearing homes to pieces, flooding streets and spawning a barrage of deadly tornadoes.

The hurricane spared densely populated Tampa a nonstop deed and the lethal tempest surge that scientists feared ne'er materialised.

Arriving conscionable 2 weeks aft the devastating Hurricane Helene, the strategy knocked retired powerfulness to much than 3 cardinal customers, flooded obstruction islands, tore the extortion disconnected the Tampa Bay Rays' shot stadium and toppled a operation crane.

A flood of vehicles headed southbound Thursday evening connected Interstate 75, the main road that runs done the mediate of the state, arsenic alleviation workers and evacuated residents headed toward the aftermath.

At times, immoderate cars adjacent drove connected the near enarthrosis of the road. Bucket trucks and substance tankers streamed by, on with portable bath trailers and a convoy of exigency vehicles.

As the clean-up continued, the state's captious tourism manufacture was opening to instrumentality to normal.

Florida taxable parks including Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando and SeaWorld planned to reopen Friday aft an appraisal of the effects of the storm.

Orlando International Airport, the state's busiest, said departures for home flights and planetary flights would resume connected Friday, aft resuming home arrivals connected Thursday evening. The airdrome had insignificant damage, including a fewer leaks and downed trees.

The tempest came conscionable weeks aft Hurricane Helene, which led to astir 230 deaths and for a prolonged play near mountainous parts of North Carolina without entree to electricity, compartment work and roadways.