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Steve McCoy, chief of the Florida Department of Health’s Bureau of Emergency Medical Oversight, said it is the state’s “largest evacuation ever.” Health officials are using almost 600 vehicles to take patients out of the storm’s path, tracking them with blue wristbands that show where they were evacuated from and where they are being ...
As Hurricane Milton bears down on Florida, the staff at Sarasota Memorial Hospital is getting ready.. The facility, in Sarasota, about an hour south of Tampa, is in the path of the hurricane but ...
Tropical Storm Milton rapidly intensified into a Category 1 hurricane Sunday with its path aimed at Florida, less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene struck the state.
Milton has strengthened back up to a major Category 5 hurricane following fluctuations in intensity on Tuesday, with the National Hurricane Center billing it as “one of the most destructive ...
Hurricane Milton, which exploded into a Category 5 hurricane within a period of hours on Monday, is expected to remain "extremely dangerous" as it makes landfall in Florida on Wednesday.
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.
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 afternoon, the storm ...
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 ...