With life-threatening storm surge, winds, flooding
By Circles Robinson*
HAVANA TIMES – “Hurricane Milton will make landfall in Florida tonight into early Thursday where it poses a major threat to life and property as it hammers the state with destructive storm surge, devastating wind damage, potentially catastrophic flooding rainfall and several tornadoes,” informed the National Weather Service.
“The track of Hurricane Milton continues to be a worst-case scenario for the Tampa Bay region southward to Charlotte”, the National Weather Service in Tampa Bay said in a briefing Wednesday morning.
The Weather Channel noted that Milton will make landfall in Florida as a major hurricane, and that besides the wind, heavy rainfall, storm surge and flooding, several tornadoes are possible on the Florida Peninsula.
At 8 AM ET (Cuba time) Milton was packing 250 kph winds (155 mph) and moving northeast at 26 kph (16 mph). The center was located 405 kms. (250 miles) (SW of Tampa, Florida. The minimum central pressure was 915 millibars