Hurricane Milton is now a Category 5 hurricane, topping the scale of categories with winds at 160 mph. Category 5 hurricanes must have winds at 155 mph or greater. The National Hurricane Center updated Milton’s category at 10:55 a.

The last time the eye of a major storm like Hurricane Milton directly struck Tampa Bay was 1921 when the city was a sleepy backwater

Tampa Bay – the nation's most vulnerable metro area to storm surge – could be about to see its worst flooding in over a century.