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The National Hurricane Center stated that when Hurricane Milton lands in Florida this week, it is expected to be a category 4 or 5 storm. It was upgraded to a category 4 on Monday morning.
The potential “once in a lifetime” storm rapidly intensified from a Category 1 to a Category 5 hurricane on Monday with sustained winds surpassing 180mph, before slowing to Category 4 on Tuesday.
Experts have also noted that Tampa has not been hit directly by a hurricane in more than a century — not since the deadly 1921 hurricane that saw storm surges of 11 feet.
As of the 11 p.m. weather advisory, the National Hurricane Center now predicts that Hurricane Milton will only weaken to a Category 4 — not a Category 3 — when it makes landfall in the Tampa ...
Category 4 is the second-highest hurricane classification category on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale, and storms that are of this intensity maintain maximum sustained winds of 113–136 knots (130–156 mph, 209–251 km/h). Based on the Atlantic hurricane database, 144 hurricanes have attained Category 4 hurricane status since 1851, the ...
Hurricane Milton, now a Category 4, is expected to hit Florida's west coast Wednesday.. Milton rapidly intensified on Monday, with winds reaching up to 180 mph. NOAA's satellite GOES-16 is ...
A Category 5 Atlantic hurricane is a tropical cyclone that reaches Category 5 intensity on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale, within the Atlantic Ocean to the north of the equator. They are among the strongest tropical cyclones that can form on Earth, having 1-minute sustained wind speeds of at least 137 knots (254 km/h ; 158 mph ; 70 m ...
About 80% of Category 3-5 hurricanes undergo this process. Hurricane Milton is seen in the Gulf of Mexico in a satellite image captured at 9:20 a.m. EDT, Oct. 9, 2024. / Credit: NOAA/NESDIS/STAR ...