Hundreds of thousands of residents in Florida's Tampa region are bracing for the second major hurricane in weeks, Milton set to make landfall as a category five storm on Wednesday.
metropolitan area — which has a population of more than 3.3 million people — with a potential direct hit, and menacing the same stretch of coastline that was battered by Helene.Milton was classified as a tropical storm on Sunday afternoon, local time, but in less than 24 hours it "explosively" morphed into a category five — theCategory five is the strongest level of tropical storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale."There's no other way to put this.
Milton is the season's ninth hurricane, and the second Atlantic storm to reach category five this season after Beryl, which in July became the earliest storm to reach that distinction.
"Milton is expected to grow in size and remain an extremely dangerous hurricane when it approaches the west coast of Florida on Wednesday."Hurricane Helene death toll rises to over 120 across six south-eastern states Mr DeSantis said the hurricane was already far stronger than what was predicted two days ago, with maximum sustained winds of 285 kilometres per hour.The hurricane centre stressed the storm would cross Florida as a hurricane and "grow in size", regardless of what category it was.
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