People are being urged to leave coastal and low lying areas of florida as Hurricane Milton, expected to be the biggest storm to hit the area in a century, moves closer to the states West Coast. President biden has warned evacuating is a matter of life and death. These pictures are coming into us live from the state of florida. This is the sunshine skyway bridge, the gateway to Tampa Bay, normally a very busy road even early in the day but pretty much deserted now, clearly very exposed and certainly not somewhere anyone would want to be as the hurricane approaches. Although those winds and rain not being really fully felt yet, if we look at this picture of some Palm Trees you can see they are moving a little bit in the breeze but those winds will get stronger and stronger. The national Hurricane Center saying that milton is bringing sustained winds of around 155 miles per hour, as we look at this track. It was downgraded a short while ago to a Category Fourfrom Category short while ago
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Set to make landfall in florida roughly 24 hours from now, weve just gotten a new advisory this very Hour Milton is currently moving towards floridas gulf coast, tracking towards the Sarasota Area and potentially inching even further south and its going to get a lot bigger before it gets there. That means a life lifethreatening Storm Surge potentially reaching up to 15 feet but this hurricane is going to impact the entire state. Everyone on edge because any wobble in its trajectory could actually impact which part gets hit the hardest, and to make matters worse, the area, as you know, is still recovering from Hurricane Helene. Just to show you how strong this storm is, take a look at this video showing no current and hunters that are flying inside of milton, the turbulence is so severe their belongings are actually being tossed all across the airplane. And heres The View from even higher up in space in space itself a Nasa Astronaut sharing this time lapse that captures the growing size