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October 9 – Hurricane Milton made landfall near Siesta Key as a Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 120 mph (195 km/h), becoming the second major hurricane to strike Florida in under a two-week period. [221] The storm brought significant flooding and damaging winds to much of the state.
PHOTO: A day after Hurricane Ian hit Florida's west coast as a Category 4 storm, wrecked ships (mostly shrimpers) can be seen at San Carlos Island in Fort Myers Beach on Sept. 29, 2022.
Wreckage in Fort Myers pictured in late April 2023, about seven months after the hurricane. In 2023, Florida senator Rick Scott introduced the Hurricane Tax Relief Act into the 118th Congress, which would enable Ian's victims, as well as victims of Hurricanes Nicole and Fiona in the US and Puerto Rico to more easily claim damage relief on their ...
How to stay safe during a hurricane: The nation's top hurricane forecaster has 5 warnings A flooded street is seen near the Steinhatchee marina in Steinhatchee, Fla. on Aug. 30, 2023, after ...
Hurricane Milton, the most recent landfalling Florida major hurricane on October 9, 2024. Approximately 500 tropical and subtropical cyclones have affected the state of Florida. More storms hit Florida than any other U.S. state, [1] and since 1851 only
President Joe Biden told reporters Tuesday that Hurricane Milton could be “one of the worst storms in 100 years” to hit Florida. The president postponed a trip to Germany and Angola this week ...
The last storm in the season, Hurricane Nicole, made landfall on the coasts of the Bahamas and Florida. It was the first November hurricane to make landfall in Florida since Kate in 1985, and caused about $1 billion in damage in areas devastated by Ian six weeks earlier. Tropical cyclones during this season collectively caused at least 304 ...
Milton continued to grow stronger on Sunday as it rapidly intensified into a hurricane. The latest projections call for the storm to hit Category 4 in the open Gulf of Mexico before weakening ...