Hurricane Milton is back to category 5 strength late Tuesday afternoon. Its maximum sustained winds were 165 miles per hour as it continued its track toward Florida’s Gulf coast.
At 5 pm, Milton was about 480 miles southwest of Tampa. The hurricane was moving east-northeast at 9 miles per hour. A turn to the northeast is expected Tuesday night.
Milton’s future track has been adjusted slightly southward, so some of the watches and warnings have been modified. There are no changes for South Florida, but there’s now a tropical storm warning for some islands in the northwestern Bahamas, including Grand Bahama Island, Bimini, and the Abacos.
To our north, there’s now a hurricane watch from the St. Lucie/Martin county line to the Martin/Palm Beach county line. The hurricane warning on Florida’s east coast now extends from the St. Lucie/Martin county line northward to Ponte Vedra Beach.
Milton is expected to make landfall somewhere in the hurricane warning area of the Gulf coast Wednesday night and then cross the state on Thursday before exiting into the Atlantic.
Anyone in the hurricane warning area should be wrapping up their preparations no later than early Wednesday morning. If anyone there has been ordered to evacuate, they should go immediately.
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