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The National Weather Service warned residents to shelter-in-place as conditions deteriorated dramatically Wednesday afternoon ...

Hurricane Milton is just hours away from making landfall in Florida and it’s anticipated to be a dangerous storm. Severe ...

Officials in a Tampa Bay-area county say that they're taking buses off the roads as Hurricane Milton bears down and that it's ...

Size: Hurricane Helene was a huge storm, about 400 miles across. Hurricane Milton is more compact — with tropical-storm-force winds about 175 miles from the center just over 12 hours prior to expected ...

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, ...

A severe solar storm is headed to Earth that could stress power grids even more as the U.S. deals with major back-to-back ...

Multiple tornadoes have been spotted in South Florida ahead of Hurricane Milton's arrival ashore. The National Hurricane Center says Milton was “growing in size” as it approached the coast.

The powerful Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall on Florida's west coast on Wednesday. Palm Beach could see ...

Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall Wednesday night/early Thursday morning along Florida's west coast.

Milton will have an enormous impact no matter where it lands, but the worst storm surge, a wall of water that acts like a battering ram, will be to the south of Milton's eye.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said there was an increasing risk of a life-threatening storm surge on the ...