Tropical storm ‘Milton’ continues this Sunday with its passage over the Gulf of Mexico with prospects of becoming a hurricane in the next few hours, with the threat it represents for the Florida peninsula, in the United States.
According to a statement from the White House, the American president, Joe Biden, has been informed this morning about “the potential impact it represents for the Gulf of Florida” as well as about the work that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is carrying out before the arrival of the storm.
“There is an increasing risk of storm surges and winds that could result in a life-threatening threat on parts of the west coast of the Florida peninsula starting Tuesday night or Wednesday,” warned the US National Hurricane Center, the NHC, in its latest update.
The worst-case scenario is that Milton could become a Category 3 hurricane over the next few days with sustained winds of 178 km/h before making landfall somewhere between Cedar Key and Naples, which includes the entire Tampa Bay area.
Milton would hit the US after the trail of devastation left by Hurricane Helene, which claimed 227 lives in six states in the last week, making it the second deadliest hurricane in the country in the last 50 years after Katrina, which devastated the US West Coast in 2005, killing more than 1,800 people.
