Hurricane Milton: Latest Updates & Tracking Toward Florida

Milton's landfall in Sarasota County was a bit of a hybrid landfall. The hurricane was gathering energy from both the warm Gulf of Mexico and from a nearby jet stream that will help launch Milton into the Atlantic. This means that the effects of rainfall flooding and storm surge flooding will be bisected by the storm's path. Parts of Southwest Florida are inundated by onshore flow while Tampa Bay to Orlando may see 10+ inches of rainfall through the night. The landfall was the strongest landfall for the region in decades.

Milton will now cross Central Florida with tropical storm force winds and extremely heavy rainfall before getting into the Atlantic early Thursday. Conditions will rapidly improve for the remainder of the week.