Sure, Milton could weaken from a Category 5 to a Category 3 before landfall, but that won't make a big difference when it comes to storm surge. “Wind doesn’t have memory, storm surge does.

Since Florida is a peninsula, it has the potential to experience a massive storm surge. With Hurricane Milton, the water levels can increase drastically and sweep over parts of Florida’s land.

As Category 3 Hurricane Milton neared Florida's west coast Wednesday, the Tampa Bay area faced two scenarios — either a colossal storm surge and historic flooding or seeing the water blown out ...

Milton's storm surge is a threat that could be devastating far beyond the Tampa Bay region - Florida communities near Tampa Bay were devastated when Hurricane Helene made landfall two weeks ago ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Two weeks ago, Hurricane Helene “spared” the Tampa Bay region a direct hit and yet storm surge still caused catastrophic damage, flooding homes, drowning people who ...

What are the storm surge forecasts for Hurricane Milton? As of 8 a.m. Tuesday, the NHC is predicting the following storm surge heights, measured above ground level, somewhere in the indicated ...

Storm surge is one of the deadliest components of large, devastating hurricanes like Hurricane Milton. But reverse storm surge is a much less common, strange phenomena that sometimes happens with ...

Sure, Milton could weaken from a Category 5 to a Category 3 before landfall, but that won’t make a big difference when it comes to storm surge. “Wind doesn’t have memory, storm surge does.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Two weeks ago, Hurricane Helene “spared” the Tampa Bay region a direct hit and yet storm surge still caused catastrophic damage, flooding homes, drowning people who ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Two weeks ago, Hurricane Helene “spared” the Tampa Bay region a direct hit and yet storm surge still caused catastrophic damage, flooding homes, drowning people who ...

What are the storm surge forecasts for Hurricane Milton? As of 2 p.m. Wednesday, the NHC is predicting the following storm surge heights, measured above ground level, somewhere in the indicated ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Two weeks ago, Hurricane Helene “spared” the Tampa Bay region a direct hit and yet storm surge still caused catastrophic damage, flooding homes, drowning people who ...