The worst-case scenario that many meteorologists were fearing is here. Hurricane Milton will make landfall on the west coast of Florida very early on Thursday morning, and it will do so as a much larger storm than originally anticipated. As you will see below, the size of Hurricane Milton’s wind field has more than doubled since Tuesday afternoon. That means that this storm will do catastrophic damage over a much wider area than the experts originally thought. At this point, some scientists are warning that the total damage from Hurricane Milton could potentially exceed the total damage that we witnessed during Hurricane Katrina.
This has been such a strange storm.
According to CBS News, Hurricane Milton “is the quickest storm on record to rapidly intensify into a Category 5 in the Gulf of Mexico”…
Milton is the quickest storm on…