Hurricane Milton, a powerful Category 5 storm, is barreling across the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida's central west coast. Mass evacuations are underway as residents prepare for the potentially historic impact. The hurricane is forecast to make landfall Wednesday night or early Thursday.
Hurricane Milton was barreling across the Gulf of Mexico as a powerful Category 5 storm early Wednesday on a path toward Florida 's central west coast, where mass evacuations clogged highways as people prepared for the potentially historic impact. It's forecast to make landfall Wednesday night or early Thursday. Some communities, like those in and around the Tampa Bay area, were still reeling from Hurricane Helene less than two weeks ago.
'That creates more serious risks of storm surge in the region, according to Nolan. Forecasts have warned Milton's arrival could bring potentially life-threatening storm surge to the Florida Gulf Coast, which is particularly vulnerable to severe surges because of its geography, and that is especially true for Tampa Bay. Multiple people died in Tampa from storm surge caused by Hurricane Helene, and that storm did not even hit the city directly. A storm track into or just north of St.
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