Hurricane Milton was downgraded to Category 3 storm Wednesday with maximum sustained winds of 125 mph as it moved closer to landfall along Florida's Gulf Coast, which is still reeling from Helene.

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

The National Hurricane Center predicts the storm surge can get as high as 15 feet in some places, and rainfall totals could ...

As Milton intensified into a major hurricane with wind speeds that on Monday reached upwards of 180 mph, the strength of the system increased the severity of the storm surge forecast to all ...

(This story was updated to add new information and to add video.) In any tropical storm or hurricane, the biggest danger is not the wind. It's the water. Storm surge, the massive wall of ...

Tampa Bay – the nation's most vulnerable metro area to storm surge – could be about to see its worst flooding in over a century if some of the more dire forecasts for the path of Hurricane ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Two weeks ago, Hurricane Helene “spared” the Tampa Bay region a direct hit and yet storm surge still caused catastrophic damage, flooding homes, drowning people who ...

Earlier Monday Milton's winds surged past 175 mph and beyond, exceeding the threshold for Category 5 storm by a significant margin. The storm's wind speeds had more than doubled in 48 hours.

The storm, which made landfall about 70 miles south of Tampa, presents an "extremely life-threatening situation" to those on the state's western coast the Center has repeatedly warned. Milton was ...

Hurricane Milton, now an extremely dangerous Category 5 storm, is on course to slam into Florida Wednesday evening. With four weeks to go until Election Day in November and Vice President Kamala ...

We were prisoners for a single day. Many of us have hardened our homes, adding shutters, storm windows and even whole-house generators. But if we get a direct hit from a storm like Helene or ...