We start in the united states, where hurricane milton has re strengthened to a category five storm, as it barrels straight towards florida. People there are evacuating en masse, ahead of wednesday s projected landfall. The national hurricane center says the storm has doubled in size since tuesday. Local authorities and weather experts say milton will bring you a destructive storm surge, and some areas will not be survivable. Hundreds of flights have been cancelled. It s expected to bring strong winds of up to 165 mph or 270 kph. Milton comes just days after hurricane helene tore through the south eastern us; 225 people were killed across six states. The back to back storms are expected to leave historic levels of damage that could take years to recover from. Unlike helene, milton will only pass through florida on its way to the atlantic ocean. President biden has postponed a trip to germany to oversee preparations and prepare a federal response. He urged those in milton s path to evacu
Hurricane milton has re strengthened to a category five storm as it barrels straight towards florida. People there are evacuating en masse, ahead of its projected landfall on wednesday night local time. The national hurricane center says the storm has doubled in size since tuesday. You can see this timelapse, here shared by american astronaut matthew dominick, showing how this storm looks from space. Local authorities and weather experts say milton will bring a destructive storm surge, in which some areas will not be survivable. Hundreds of flights have been canceled ahead of its landfall, which is expected to bring strong winds of up to 165 mph or 270 kph. Milton comes just days after hurricane helene tore through the south eastern us; 225 people were killed by the natural disaster across six states. The back to back storms are expected to leave historic levels of damage that could take years to recover from. Unlike helene, milton will only pass through florida on its way to the atlan
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Downpours and thunderstorms pushing northwards and eastwards across england and wales. Weve also had this band of Rain Across Southern and Central Scotland and Northern Ireland. That will weaken overnight. The showers will move eastwards in the south but still with the chance of localised Flooding And Transport disruption. Itll start to turn cold as the night wears on in the north of scotland. Northerly winds digging in here. Tomorrow, our area of low pressure still with us. This is the deep low running to the south of us. That is a former hurricane kirk. All of these different areas of low pressure will be moving eastwards over the next couple of days, taking the rain away eastwards too and bringing in this northerly wind. Tomorrow for many, cloud, pieces of rain, the showers in the South Shouldnt be as numerous or as heavy as they have been today, but that cold air starts to dig in. Nine. In a way and aberdeen, those are the afternoon highs. Looking at the Ms Chart as we head into th