The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) is closely monitoring the tormenta tropical Miltonwhich is moving towards the northwest in the Caribbean Sea and is expected to impact Florida as a hurricane.
The authorities issued different alerts of storm surge life threatening, damaging winds e floods in various areas of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.
According to his career, Milton could cause new damage to areas of the Florida coast still recovering from Helenewhich made landfall on September 26 as a powerful category 4 hurricane with winds of 225 km/h.
Heavy rain is expected locally throughout Florida. The peninsula and Keys are well ahead of the storm that is intensifying as humidity increases.
This Sunday Milton is expected to become a Category 1 hurricane. However, on Monday, October 7, it will dawn as a category 2 and intensify the night of that same day, to become a powerful category 3 hurricane, as it moves towards Florida.
The storm will make landfall in Florida as Category 2 Hurricane Milton.Zoom Earth
Pressure over the eastern Gulf of Mexico helps concentrate areas of heavy rain and thunderstorms on Sunday and Monday.
According to the site’s forecasts Zoom Earthafter impacting Florida next Wednesday, very close to Tampa Bay, The cyclone will cross part of the state and continue to the north.
Primary threats include destructive winds and heavy rain. are predicted storm surge in the region and could pose a significant threat to life due to the flooding in coastal areaswarned the NHC.
Las heavy rains They also represent a great threat. In the southeastern United States, accumulations of between seven and 12 centimeters of rain, with possible totals of up to 25 centimeterscould trigger flash and urban flooding, which represents a high risk.
Hurricane Milton could generate damaging winds, severe rainfall, flash flooding, and life-threatening storm surge.JOE RAEDLE – GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA
Hurricane Kirk is advancing in the Atlantic Ocean, moving at a speed of 17 kilometers per hour in the direction of the US East Coast However, in his journey It is expected to make a slight turn towards the north and then another towards the northeast during this Sunday, so he tropical cyclone would not make landfall on American soil.
“As Kirk moves over colder waters and into a more baroclinic environment, it is expected to lose tropical characteristics and become a strong extratropical cyclone around 96h over the northeast Atlantic“, detailed the NHC.
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