Hurricane Milton, which gained strength this October 8 and became a Category 5 againaccording to the National Hurricane Center (NHC for its acronym in English), goes directly to the United States. It has just left the Gulf of Mexico and in the next few hours it will hit the west coast of Florida, so it is expected to have a high impact with flooding and large numbers of people who will have to evacuate. I leave you here with the real time path of this hurricane.
Jane Castor, the mayor of Tampa, Florida, spoke on October 8 about what Hurricane Milton will generate: “We can expect the storm to go a little south,” she said during a press conference with the media and the population. Additionally, he said “If a storm surge comes into Tampa Bay, it has nowhere to go. It will come to our neighborhoods.”
The President, Joe Biden, also spoke out with a strong and clear message: “The time to evacuate is now, now, now (…) It’s a matter of life or death”said the president.
The path of Hurricane Milton
The path of Hurricane Milton LIVE
Hurricane Milton will pass through the Gulf of Mexico with winds of up to 250 km/h, through 51 counties in Florida (where 19 will be most affected) and Miami will be one of the areas affected.
Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall this Wednesday night, October 9, passing through the entire state of Florida, making it an “extremely dangerous hurricane,” as cataloged by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) at its acronym in English). The area that will be most affected is Tampa, which has a population of 3 million people.
The most dangerous are torrential rain, flooding, hurricane force winds and storm surges, where there may be inland movements from the coast, which can reach between 3 and 4.5 metres.
Follow the LIVE trajectory of Hurricane Milton here
Which counties in Florida should evacuate due to Hurricane Milton?
The list extends to a total of 19 counties that must be evacuated regardless of the event of Hurricane Milton in Florida, which is in Category 5. It should be noted that there is no need to move hundreds of miles, as there will be a few dozen. be enough to avoid the most intense area of this hurricane’s descent in that state.
- Charlotte County
- Citrus County
- Collier County
- Glades County
- Hardee County
- Hernando County
- Hillsborough County
- County Lee
- County Levy
- Manatee County
- Marion County
- Miami-Dade County
- Okeechobee County
- Pasco County
- Pinellas County
- Putnam County
- Sarasota County
- Summer County
- Volusia County
Florida evacuation advisories due to Hurricane Milton
The counties previously mentioned are the counties that will have to evacuate yes or no due to the departure of the category 5 hurricane, so here we leave you with some recommendations so that you can do it right.
- Keep your cell phones or telephones with the main family and emergency numbers handy.
- Always include a fire extinguisher at home.
- Identify your nearest evacuation point and the main routes to get there safely.
Hurricane Milton and its destructive power shortly after passing through Florida. (Video: Twitter) :quality(75)/s3.amazonaws.com/arc-authors/elcomercio/6a612182-711e-4266-b41c-6fe83cb0476b.png)