10/10/2024

Hurricane Milton Makes Landfall in Florida

The category 3 storm landed on its Gulf coast

Hurricane Milton made landfall Wednesday along Florida’s Gulf Coast as a category 3 storm, bringing powerful winds, deadly storm surge and potential flooding to much of the state. Milton drew fuel from exceedingly warm Gulf of Mexico waters, twice reaching category 5 status.

More than 1 million homes and businesses were without power within an hour of landfall. The highest number of outages are in Sarasota County, where the storm made landfall.

The storm is bringing deadly surge to much of Florida’s Gulf Coast, including densely populated areas such as Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota and Fort Myers.

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