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Milton intensified from a Category 2 hurricane into a Category 5 storm within hours Monday, generating winds of 180 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center. On Tuesday morning, the storm ...
What are the different categories of hurricanes? Milton is expected to make landfall as at least a Category 3 hurricane. This category can cause devastating damage and bring dangerous storm surges ...
When Hurricane Milton reaches Florida's Gulf Coast on Wednesday, the immense and powerful storm could generate “life-threatening” storm surge of up to 15 feet. Why Milton could become one of ...
As it did so, a pinhole eye measuring 4 nautical miles (7 km) soon developed within very deep convection of around −80 °C (−112 °F), [21] with Milton becoming a major hurricane and soon after a Category 5 hurricane, by 11:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC respectively on October 7, [22] [23] making it the second Category 5 hurricane of the season ...
Milton's path updates: Hurricane Milton tracker Developments : ∎ Milton was centered about 405 miles southwest of Tampa, rolling northeast near 12 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center ...
Forecasters predict Milton will likely reach hurricane status with sustained winds of 74 mph by Sunday night, before becoming a Category 3 storm with winds of at least 111 mph in less than 72 hours.
The good news is that forecasts have Hurricane Milton shifting south — away from the worst-case-scenario track that put Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater directly in its path.
The National Hurricane Center had warned that Milton was likely to strengthen into a major hurricane, defined by minimum sustained winds of 111 mph, and its status was confirmed at 8 a.m. Monday.