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Hurricane Milton "was significant, but thankfully this was not the worst case scenario," Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday. Florida picking up the pieces after Milton: 14 dead, 3M without power Skip ...
Streets in downtown Fort Myers saw storm surge spill into the city, a grim reminder of the ferocious impact of Hurricane Ian in 2022. Several feet of water rose as Milton washed ashore. Several ...
The Category 3 hurricane barreled across Florida’s Gulf Coast on Wednesday evening, leaving parts of Sarasota, Fort Myers and other communities underwater and more than 3 million people without ...
Residents fill sandbags on Fort Myers Beach, Fla., in preparation for Hurricane Milton on Oct. 6. As of 11 p.m. E.T. Sunday, Milton was about 230 miles west-northwest of Progreso, Mexico, and 765 ...
Hurricane Milton made landfall Wednesday night as a "dangerous Category 3" storm near Siesta Key, on Florida's central west coast, the National Hurricane Center said. Siesta Key is a barrier ...
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), [22] 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, [23] [24] making it the second Category 5 hurricane of the season ...
A storm surge inundation map released at 11 a.m. by the NHC shows the potential for more than 9 feet of water flooding into vulnerable Tampa Bay, Charlotte Harbor, and Fort Myers Beach.
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.