Dr. Ryan Truchelut, of WeatherTiger, is tracking major Hurricane Milton and is offering running analysis on the catastrophic landfall in Florida.

The storm arrived, near the city of Siesta Key, as a category three and was described by the US National Hurricane Center as being "extremely dangerous".

Hurricane Milton continued to weaken early Thursday as it made its way northeast across the Florida Peninsula after making landfall near Sarasota on the west coast Wednesday night as a Category 3 storm.