“Behind Milton there was a marked dry air plume that pushed over the area and so we’re definitely seeing those lower dew points and more comfortable temperatures over the area — today into tomorrow,” Ana Torres-Vazquez, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Miami, said on Friday.

Greenhouse gas emissions added rain, intensified winds and doubled the storm’s potential property damage, scientists estimated.

In the National Hurricane Center’s 5 p.m. advisory on Tropical Storm Leslie, the storm was churning in the middle of the Atlantic with 50-mph winds and moving northeast at 17 mph.