Hurricane Milton has been declared a potential threat to Bermuda.
The Bermuda Weather Service reported at noon that the Category 4 storm was expected to approach the island over the weekend, however, the system will have significantly weakened before then.
The system’s closest point of approach within the next 72 hours was forecast to be about 245 miles to the island’s southwest at midday on Saturday.
The latest forecast from the U.S. National Hurricane Center said, “At 1100 AM EDT [1500 UTC], the center of Hurricane Milton was located near latitude 25.8 North, longitude 84.3 West. Milton is moving toward the northeast near 17 mph [28 km/h]. A northeastward motion with some decrease in forward speed is expected through this evening. A turn toward the east-northeast and east is expected on Thursday and Friday. On the forecast track, the center of Milton will move across the eastern Gulf of Mexico today, make landfall along the west-central coast of Florida tonight, and move off the east coast of Florida over the western Atlantic Ocean on Thursday.
“Maximum sustained winds are near 145 mph [230 km/h] with higher gusts. Milton is a category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Milton is expected to remain an extremely dangerous major hurricane when it reaches the west-central coast of Florida tonight, and remain at hurricane strength while it moves across the Florida peninsula through Thursday. Gradual weakening is forecast while Milton moves eastward over the western Atlantic, and it is likely to become an extratropical storm by early Friday.
The system’s closest point of approach within the next 72 hours was forecast to be about 245 miles to the island’s southwest at midday on Saturday.
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