Hurricane Milton: tropical storm-force winds reach Florida before ‘storm of the century’
by Edward Helmore and Cecilia Nowell from US news | The Guardian on (#6RBF7)
Storm weakens to category 3 ahead of expected landfall late on Wednesday or early on Thursday
Officials urged residents of Florida's western coast to shelter in place if they had not already evacuated on Wednesday evening as Hurricane Milton prepared to make landfall in the next few hours.
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) urged Floridians to prepare for a storm surge of over 10ft, flooding and devastating hurricane-force winds as the state prepares for what Joe Biden has called the storm of the century".
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