Hurricane Smacks Florida
Hurricane Milton made landfall just after 8:30 p.m. Wednesday on Florida’s Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm.
Milton came on the scene on Saturday as a tropical storm. Early Monday morning, Milton kicked off a rapid intensification starting as a Category 2 storm. It waffled between Category 4 and 5 strength on Tuesday before weakening to a Category 3 as it came ashore near Siesta Key, south of Tampa and St. Petersburg. The key is part of Siesta Beach alongside Sarasota.
Now, the storm is already exiting Florida as a Category 1, heading out into the Atlantic Ocean. The worst of the damage should be over by mid afternoon today, but the flooding will take awhile to subside, and some risk of tornadoes remains. Here’s an update from Channel 10, the CBS station serving Tampa Bay and Sarasota.
