Communities in Florida are preparing to get hit head-on by a potential Category 3 hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico days after Hurricane Helene made landfall in the state – killing 20 people, leaving thousands without power and paving a trail of wreckage.

The Florida Gulf Coast will soon be preparing for another hurricane as Tropical Storm Milton is expected to become a hurricane later Sunday afternoon and hit Florida’s coast by mid-week. The Southeast,

Tropical Storm Milton formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday afternoon and is expected to strengthen into a hurricane later today. In an advisory on Sunday morning, National Hurricane Center (NHC) meteorologists said Milton may turn into a "major hurricane" as it travels across the central and eastern Gulf of Mexico toward the west coast of