Hurricane Milton is exiting Florida’s east coast early Thursday morning, but its winds and storm surge are still battering much of the peninsula.
At 5 am Thursday, Milton was about 10 miles northeast of Cape Canaveral. The hurricane was moving northeast at 18 miles per hour. Maximum sustained winds were 85 miles per hour — so Milton maintained hurricane strength during its entire trek across central Florida.
It will be some time before the damage Milton caused can be assessed. But we do know there were fatalities from at least one of the numerous tornadoes spawned by Milton on Wednesday. Storm surge damage is also expected to be extensive.
According to the Washington Post: Milton made landfall along the state’s west-central coast as a Category 3 storm on Wednesday night. Its destruction will come into clearer view as daylight emerges, but the severity of the impact was already evident in many pockets. More than 3 million households were without power. Even before the storm came ashore, it spawned a surprising and deadly spate of tornadoes, including well away from the landfall location.
Here in South Florida, the tropical storm warning has been dropped for Miami-Dade, Broward, the Keys, and the Gulf Coast. It remains in effect early Thursday morning for Palm Beach County. The storm surge warning for the Naples area has also been dropped.
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