He Hurricane Milton This Wednesday it lost intensity again and dropped from category 4 to 3, with maximum sustained winds of 195 kilometers per hour, heading towards the west coast of the island. Floridawhere the first tornadoes have already occurred and their arrival is expected on Wednesday night.

According to an update from the US National Hurricane Center (NHC), Milton, however, has grown in size. and its tropical storm-force winds extend more than 400 kilometers from its center.

System It is located 100 km west-southwest of Sarasota.on the west coast of Florida, 275 kilometers southwest of Orlando, in the center of the state, and is moving northeast at a speed of 28 kilometers per hour.

NHC meteorologists noted that They can already feel the heavy rain with tropical storm force winds inland across the Florida peninsula. Numerous tornado warnings are also in effect throughout Florida.

Milton is expected to turn east-northeast-east next Thursday and Friday and is forecast to tonight the center will make landfall somewhere in the center off the west coast of Florida and then crossed the peninsula all night until they reached the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday morning.

Forecasters expect Milton to stay “extremely dangerous hurricane of great strength” when it reaches the coast of Florida, and that it maintains its hurricane strength as it crosses the peninsula.

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There is significant concern about the storm surge that Milton could bring to Tampa Bay, ranging from 3 to 4.5 meters.

The heavy rain Milton will dump across the Florida peninsula through Thursday will result in…risk of catastrophic outbreaks 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 be ‘catastrophic and deadly’ and asked the public to use these final hours to leave the area, as well as those who were unable to “immediately seek safe locations.”

US President Joe Biden warned on Tuesday that Hurricane Milton could be ‘worst’ to hit Florida century and asked people in the path of the hurricane to evacuate as soon as possible.

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According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Atlantic hurricane season, which officially began on June 1, may have “above” average activityin this case, from 8 to 13 hurricanes will occur, of which from 4 to 7 will be of a strong category.

Nine hurricanes have formed since the start of hurricane season: Beryl, Debbie, Ernesto, Francine, Helen, Isaac, Kirk, Leslie and now Milton.of which Beryl and Milton reached category 5, the maximum on the Saffir-Simpson intensity scale. (EFE)