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Saw this report. If true, Michael was a Cat 5 at landfall:
158mph winds inbound to the S of the center, 153mph surface winds to the ESE of the eye. These are not likely over land. But 158 will do it. The message was transmitted at 17:52, or 1:52.
For any in the path of that eye near the coast: the worst weather is in that rain band that wraps around the eye. The eye itself is typically calm inside with nearly no wind and no rain. That's why it's a hole on radar. The calm it brings may last for quite awhile but be warned the other side of the eyewall will eventually come and to not venture out to where you would be caught out in the open when it suddenly shows up with little warning.
That also means there will be a stretch on either side of the eye's path who don't get that break and instead endure a longer eyewall experience.
I'm curious - about how wide across is the eye? I've experienced that dead calm once when the eye of a much less severe hurricane came across Long Island decades ago but don't remember how long it took before the rain and wind began again.
Thanks to everyone for all the fine reporting you each do.
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