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Hurricane Milton has made landfall along Florida’s Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm. It has lashed the state with powerful winds, deadly storm surge and potential flooding. The cyclone ...

Hurricane Helene strengthened to a Category 4 storm ahead of landfall Thursday along Florida's Big Bend coast.

MIAMI — The National Weather Service says the storm’s maximum sustained wind speed was 90 mph (145 kph) at about 1 a.m.

MIAMI — The National Weather Service says the storm’s maximum sustained wind speed was 90 mph (145 kph) at about 1 a.m. Thursday as it passed east of Lakeland, Florida, on its way across the ...

Hurricane Milton comes only two weeks after Hurricane Helene tore through the Big Bend and decimated parts of North Carolina.

Communities from the Tampa Bay area south to Sarasota, Southwest Florida could be where Milton comes ashore midweek as a Category 3 hurricane.

MIAMI — The National Weather Service says the storm’s maximum sustained wind speed was 90 mph (145 kph) at about 1 a.m. Thursday as it passed east of Lakeland, Florida, on its way across the ...

Live updates for Polk County:Get the latest for the Lakeland area ... tonight and Tuesday, then cross the eastern Gulf of Mexico and approach the west coast of the Florida Peninsula on Wednesday.