Florida braces for another major hurricane this week as Tropical Storm Milton is projected to intensify into a Category 3 or higher storm before making landfall on the Tampa Bay area Wednesday. Authorities are scrambling to prepare after recent devastation from Hurricane Helene, deploying National Guard troops and issuing emergency declarations.
Milton is expected to strengthen to a “major hurricane” before it reaches the Tampa Bay area by Wednesday, forecasters said. Florida is bracing for another major hurricane to strike this week—less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene made landfall in the Sunshine State, causing massive devastation that authorities are still trying to clean up.
The Tampa Bay area has seen its fair share of hurricanes, but the storms typically do not strike the region directly from the west from the Gulf of Mexico, instead traveling north along the coast, as seen in the paths ofidentified four storms that traveled in this direction on record—three of which struck Tampa Bay in the 19th century.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis expanded the emergency declaration on Sunday, putting 51 of Florida’s 67 counties under a state of emergency—including the cities of Tampa, Miami, and Orlando. In an address to Floridians on Sunday, DeSantis said that over 800 National Guardsmen were already deployed, with another 4,000 deploying in the next few days. He added that the region would be the site of a “24/7” operation to remove debris still left over from Helene and prep for Milton’s arrival.
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