Hurricane Milton has reached Category 3 strength and is still intensifying Monday morning on a track to a potentially devastating Florida landfall within days.
Here’s the latest forecast track for Hurricane Milton, which is expected to hit Florida’s Gulf coast within days. Hurricane Milton rapidly strengthened to a major Category 3 hurricane Monday in the Gulf of Mexico and casting an ominous shadow toward Florida, where state emergency management officials said they were preparing for the largest hurricane evacuation since 2017.
DeSantis expanded a state of emergency he declared on Saturday to cover 51 counties, including Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties. Only counties in the western Panhandle were excluded from the emergency declaration. The state has prepared emergency fuel sources and electric vehicle charging stations along evacuation routes, and “identified every possible location that can possibly house someone along those routes,” Guthrie said. People who live in homes built after Florida strengthened its codes in 2004, who don’t depend on constant electricity and who aren’t in evacuation zones, should probably avoid the roads, he said.
As many as 4,000 National Guard troops are helping state crews to remove the tons of debris left behind by Helene, DeSantis said, and he directed that Florida crews dispatched to North Carolina in Helene’s aftermath return to the state to prepare for Milton.
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