Meteorologist: 'This Is Just Horrific'

Hurricane Milton intensified to a Category 5 storm with terrifying speed on Monday, and veteran meteorologist John Morales became visibly emotional while discussing it. "It's just an incredible, incredible, incredible hurricane. It has dropped," the NBC6 hurricane specialist said before choking up. "It has dropped 50 millibars in 10 hours,...

Hurricane Milton with terrifying speed on Monday, and veteran meteorologist John Morales became visibly emotional while discussing it. "It's just an incredible, incredible, incredible hurricane. It has dropped," the hurricane specialist said before choking up.

"It has dropped 50 millibars in 10 hours," he said after a pause. "I apologize. This is just horrific.

" Morales is "the longest tenured TV meteorologist in south Florida," CNN's Brian Stelter said in a . "When he gets this serious, this emotional, on the air, viewers pay attention." The emotion in Morales' voice could be heard for the rest of the segment, reports.

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