Residents of Florida who are in Milton’s route have been advised to leave as soon as possible. As Hurricane Milton approached the state on Tuesday as a Category 5 hurricane, Gov. Ron DeSantis and other officials issued evacuation orders.
“Milton has the potential to be one of the most destructive hurricanes on record for west-central Florida,” the National Hurricane Center stated in a forecast discussion.
It was predicted that the storm’s wind field would treble before it reached Florida and crossed the Gulf of Mexico.
Nearly the whole western coast of Florida was under storm surge warnings, and director of the National Hurricane Center Michael Brennan predicted on Tuesday that the inundation will exceed five feet in a region between Bonita Beach and Chassahowitzka.
He predicted that “somewhere in this region is going to experience 10 to 15 feet of inundation about ground level” in an area encompassing Pinellas County, Sarasota, and Tampa Bay.
The state was getting ready for a storm that might be very destructive. According to DeSantis, power line workers were traveling to Florida from as far away as California in order to assist in resolving what the weather predicted may be prolonged power disruptions.
A half-million-person population in Pinellas County has been advised to leave certain regions. Winds of up to 100 mph are predicted for St. Petersburg, which is faster than what it experienced during Hurricane Helene.
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Less than two weeks had passed since Helene, a Category 4 storm, made landfall in the Big Bend region of western Florida and proceeded to inundate parts of the Southeast.
Milton is going to follow the path of Florida from west to east. Forecasters in Orlando and the surrounding region warned of up to 15 inches of rain and stated that there was a “extreme flooding rain threat” in the area.
