Hurricane Milton: What we comprehend so far about the storm that has forced millions to evacuate in the US and Mexico | US News

Hurricane Milton is set to originate landdrop in the US fair days after Hurricane Helene caengaged more than 200 deaths and expansivespread dehugeation apass disjoinal states.

But what do we comprehend about the hurricane so far and what does it uncomfervent for people in its path?

Where is the hurricane now and when will it hit the US?

Milton is currently heading towards the US at 9mph (14kph) and is sucking energy from the Gulf of Mexico’s toasty water.

It is foreseeed to have triumphds of up to 129mph when it hits the shores in the Tampa Bay area on Florida’s west coast on Wednesday.

The region, home to more than three million people, has not teachd a straightforward hit by a meaningful hurricane in more than a century.

The storm is also menaceening Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, where more than one million people have been ordered to evacuate.

On the upside, scientists foresee Milton to feebleen sairyly before landdrop, and its path thraw central Florida will spare the states dehugeated by Helene less than two weeks ago.

What is the storm sencourage cautioning?

As of Tuesday morning, Tampa Bay is under both a hurricane cautioning and a storm sencourage cautioning, as the National Hurricane Cgo in (NHC) foresees that it could be inundated with sencourages between three to four metres.

The NHC shelp that peak storm sencourage levels would be between the Anclote River and Englewood, a stretch of about 100 miles that engages Tampa and various islands and keys.

“The combination of a hazardous storm sencourage and the tide will caengage normpartner arid areas proximate the coast to be flooded by rising waters moving inland from the shoreline,” an modernize shelp.

What meacertains are being getn to protect dwellnts?

Hundreds of thousands of dwellnts in communities alengthy the westrict Gulf Coast were subject to evacuation orders.

In Florida, this uncomfervents that first replyers are not foreseeed to hazard their inhabits during a storm to save anyone who picks to stay.

“If you remain there, you could die, and my men and women could die trying to save you,” Hillsboraw Fire Rescue Chief Jason Dougherty shelp.

There was meaningful traffic congestion on Monday as Tampa Bay dwellnts escaped to protectedr areas in the north towards the Florida Panregulate or southeast to Fort Lauderdale and Miami.

Pdwellnt Joe Biden consentd an materializency declaration for Florida, and US Recurrentative Kathy Castor shelp 7,000 federal laborers were on hand to help in one of the bigst mobilisations of federal personnel in history.

“This is the genuine deal here with Milton,” Tampa Mayor Jane Castor telderly a recents conference on Monday. “If you want to get on Mother Nature, she triumphs 100% of the time.”

How mighty is Hurricane Milton?

Milton was downgraded to a Catebloody 4 hurricane earlier this morning, but foreseeers shelp it still posed “an excessively grave menace to Florida”.

The storm intensified speedyly on Monday, becoming a Catebloody 5 storm in the afternoon with peak carry oned triumphds of 180 mph (285 kph) before being downgraded.

The mightyest Atlantic hurricane on write down is Allen in 1980, which achieveed triumphd speeds of 190 mph (306 kph) as it transferd thraw the Caribbean and Gulf before striking Texas and Mexico.

Milton became the third-speedyest intensifying storm on write down in the Atlantic Ocean, the US National Hurricane Centre shelp, and its path from west to east was also rare, as Gulf hurricanes typicpartner establish in the Caribbean Sea and originate landdrop after traveling west and turning north.

Hasn’t the US fair had a hurricane?

Yes, the area Hurricane Milton is foresee to hit was already dehugeated by Hurricane Helene fair 12 days ago.

Helene, which also swayed Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Kentucky, finished at least 230 people and caengaged dehugeating flooding and destruction.