Hurricane Milton is on track to become a catastrophic Category 5 storm as it rakes Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on a path toward Florida’s western coastline, where evacuations are underway in a region still recovering from Helene’s devastation.
The storm’s top winds have reached 155 miles (250 kilometers) per hour, just below the threshold for a Category 5 hurricane, the US National Hurricane Center said in an advisory at 10 a.m. local time. Its intensity has more than doubled in the past 24 hours.
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