Hurricane Milton remained a dangerous Category 4 storm Wednesday with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph — just below Category 5 status — as it moved closer to landfall along Florida’s Gulf Coast, which is still reeling from Helene.
“Milton is expected to remain an extremely dangerous major hurricane when it reaches the west-central coast of Florida tonight,” the National Hurricane Center said in its 8 a.m. ET bulletin, which warned damaging winds and “life-threatening” storm surge will extend well outside the forecast zone.
The center of the storm is expected to make landfall in the Tampa area late Wednesday or in the early morning hours of Thursday and move east-northeast across central Florida on Thursday.
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