Hurricane Milton is headed for Sarasota and Manatee counties, causing widespread evacuations ahead of a deadly storm surge.

According to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), Milton was about 250 miles southwest of Tampa and had winds of 155 mph as ...

Milton will be a surge event unlike any hurricane in living memory for west-central Florida, with only major hurricane strikes in 1848 and 1921 comparable in scope and height of the coastal flooding, ...

Milton has strengthened back into a Category 5 hurricane. Even though it is forecast to weaken before it makes landfall, it will double in size — meaning its disastrous impacts will be felt over a ...

Once Milton makes landfall, it will move across the middle portion of the Florida Peninsula. Orlando will likely see some ...

Hurricane Milton, a powerful Category 4 storm, is forecast to double in size as it barrels toward Florida. The storm’s ...

Hurricane Milton is once again a Category 4 storm as of Wednesday morning, with 155-mile-per-hour sustained winds, as it continues to make its way toward Florida, which is still reeling from Hurricane ...

"The track of Hurricane Milton continues to be a worst-case scenario for the Tampa Bay region southward to Charlotte," the National Weather Service in Tampa Bay said in a briefing Wednesday morning.

With a storm surge potentially as high as 15 feet, the National Hurricane Center says "Milton has the potential to be one of ...

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Storm surge is the deadliest when it comes to impacts seen from a hurricane. The Gulf Coast of Florida from Tampa Bay down to Naples and Bonita Beach are being forecasted by the National Hurricane ...

Tampa, with a metropolitan area that is home to over 3 million people, has not had a direct hit by a major hurricane in more ...