He Category 4 Hurricane Milton grows in size in the last hours on the way to the west coast Floridastate in the southeastern United States, where for the first time tornado and its arrival is expected powerful the cyclone was the first of its kind in more than a century.

According to the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC), Milton has lost some intensity and presented maximum sustained wind speed 215 kilometers per hour, but it has grown in size and its tropical storm-force winds extend approximately 400 kilometers from its center.

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In an update issued at 3:00 pm local time (19:00 GMT), the weather center indicated that these tropical storm-force winds are already beginning to move inland toward the west coast of Florida, where they originated minutes earlier. tornadoes in the central and southern parts of the state.

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The system is located 180 kilometers west of Fort Myers, in Lee County (west coast of Florida), and 195 kilometers southwest of Tampa, on the same coast, and is moving northeast at 26 kilometers per hour.

The center of Milton is forecast to pass through the eastern Gulf of Mexico today and make landfall somewhere on the west-central Florida coast Wednesday evening, a large area under a hurricane warning, before crossing the ocean. peninsula and overlook the Atlantic.

Forecasters expect Milton to remain an “extremely dangerous major hurricane” when it makes landfall in Florida tonight and maintain hurricane strength as it moves across the peninsula into the early hours of Thursday.

Milton is forecast to “gradually weaken” as it moves east over the western Atlantic and will likely strengthen into an extratropical storm early Friday morning.

Tides range from 3 to 4.5 meters.

This is very disturbing splash the cyclone that Milton could bring to Tampa Bay, height from 3 to 4.5 meters.

The heavy rain Milton will dump across the Florida peninsula through Thursday will carry “the risk of catastrophic rainfall and urban flooding,” especially in areas where there is a combination of coastal and inland flooding.

The US Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) warned this Wednesday that Hurricane Milton will “catastrophic and fatal and asked the public to use these final hours to leave the area and for those who were unable to “immediately seek safety.”

US President Joe Biden warned on Tuesday that the hurricane Milton could be the ‘worst’ player in the state of Florida V century and asked people in the hurricane’s path to evacuate as soon as possible. (EFE)