Parts of Florida still recovering from Hurricane Helene will face their second major storm in just two weeks
Residents of Pinellas County, Florida, fill sandbags at John Chesnut Sr. Park in Palm Harbor, Fla., on October 6, 2024. Florida’s governor has declared a state of emergency on October 5 as forecasters warned that Hurricane Milton was expected to make landfall later this week.Editor’s Note : This story will be updated as the situation unfolds.and appears to be heading northeast, straight toward the western coast of Florida, with the worst impact currently centered around Tampa.
Milton became a Category 5 hurricane on October 7, 2024, as it continued to intensify over the Gulf of Mexico.He says that Hurricane Milton is expected to bring a wide range of threats to west-central Florida: strong winds that could result in power outages lasting up to a week,of eight to 12 feet, rainfall totaling five to 10 inches, with up to 15 inches in some locations, and potentially tornadoes.
In addition, Helene stripped the area of local defenses such as sand dunes, leaving the region more vulnerable to future surges. All told, Hurricane Milton could cause twice as much storm surge around Tampa Bay as Hurricane Helene did. Some of the details of Hurricane Milton’s arrival are still uncertain: There’s still time for the storm’s wind intensity and exact path into Florida to change. The hurricane’s intensity is particularly unpredictable because it underwent a process called, during which a storm’s fastest sustained winds increase in speed by at least 35 miles per hour during a 24-hour period.
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