Hurricane Milton cut a scar of damage across Central Florida after making landfall ... Fort Myers and other Gulf Coast communities underwater, flooded by up to 6 feet of storm surge.

The current path predicted by the NHC has Milton coming ashore as a major hurricane (i.e., Category 3 or higher) in the Tampa Bay area on the Gulf Coast ... through Central Florida before exiting ...

Milton is expected to make landfall on Florida's central Gulf coast late Wednesday. "We must be prepared for a major, major impact to the west coast of Florida," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said ...

Forecasters with the hurricane center predict the storm will strike Florida's western Gulf Coast as a major hurricane ... a hurricane as it moves across central Florida into the Atlantic Ocean.

It could retain hurricane strength as it churns across central Florida toward ... posed “an extremely serious threat to Florida.” The entire Gulf Coast of Florida is especially vulnerable ...

TALLAHASSEE - Florida officials implored Gulf Coast residents to follow evacuation ... The state suspended tolls on highways in the Tampa Bay area, Central Florida and on Alligator Alley to ...

While Gulf Coast counties accounted for many of Florida’s nearly three million power outages early Thursday morning, hundreds of thousands were in central and eastern counties. “We’re ...

In 2004, a total of five storms hit Florida within a six-week time span, including three that lashed the central part of the state. Tampa has not been hit directly by a hurricane in over a century but ...

They described the storm as having “the potential to be one of the most destructive hurricanes on record for west-central Florida ... all along the Florida Gulf Coast. But the thousands ...

It is expected to make a turn to the northeast and speed up late Tuesday toward the west coast of Florida. Landfall is expected in west-central Florida on Wednesday night, the hurricane center said.

Milton is expected to make landfall on Florida's Gulf Coast late Wednesday ... expected to retain hurricane strength as it crosses central Florida on Thursday toward the Atlantic Ocean.

off the coast off Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. (NOAA via AP)(AP) A powerful Hurricane Milton churned through the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida on Wednesday and could wallop ...