Hurricane Milton Reaches Category 4 Heading to Florida
Hurricane Milton as of Oct. 7, 2024. X/ @TheDailySeeker
October 7, 2024 Hour: 10:34 am
Currently, Milton is located 735 miles southwest of Tampa, Florida, and about 150 miles west of Progreso, Mexico.
On Monday, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported that Milton had intensified into a Category 4 hurricane on the five-level Saffir-Simpson scale, with maximum sustained winds of 150 miles per hour (240 kilometers per hour).
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The system threatens a wide area of the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico) with storm surge and hurricane conditions. There is an increasing risk of storm surge and destructive winds along Florida’s west coast starting Tuesday night or early Wednesday.
The NHC urged residents of Florida’s central-west coast to pay attention to evacuation orders from local authorities. Even before Milton approaches Florida, heavy rains and urban flooding are expected, which will worsen with river overflows.
Currently, Hurricane Milton is located 735 miles (1,185 kilometers) southwest of Tampa, Florida, and about 150 miles (240 kilometers) west of Progreso, Mexico.
Milton is moving east-southeast at approximately 8 miles per hour (13 kilometers per hour), which means it could make landfall in Florida on Wednesday as a potentially destructive hurricane.
On its forecasted path, Milton is expected to pass near or just north of the Yucatán Peninsula on Monday and cross the eastern Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, approaching Florida’s west coast on Wednesday.
The arrival of this new tropical storm in Florida comes just ten days after Helene made landfall in the state, becoming the deadliest hurricane in the U.S. since Katrina.
teleSUR/ JF Source: EFE
