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The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said, in an advisory published at 4 a.m. (ET) on Oct. 9, “Milton has been maintaining its strength as a catastrophic category 5 hurricane over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico.”
The maximum sustained winds are near 160 mph, with higher gusts.
They said satellite and doppler radar images indicated it had a, “compact, symmetric, and very powerful inner core.”
The NHC said the eye of Hurricane Milton was moving northeastward at 14 mph and was expected to,
“make landfall along the west-central coast of Florida late tonight or early Thursday morning.”…