Hurricane Milton interactive tracker: Watch the path of deadly storm as it barrels toward Florida coast

An interactive tracker charts the existent and aboriginal way of Hurricane Milton arsenic the deadly tempest moves done the Gulf of Mexico towards Florida.

The tracker present shows Milton surging conscionable northbound of Mexico's shoreline larboard metropolis of Campeche arsenic it gathers steam connected its northeastern trajectory towards Florida's northwestern coast. 

Milton is presently producing arsenic overmuch arsenic 2-3 inches of precipitation per hr adjacent to the oculus of the storm, gathering momentum and barreling toward Tampa wherever it's expected to make landfall Wednesday morning.

Meteorologists expect life-threatening, nine-foot-high tempest surges and winds of up to 150 miles-per-hour (mph) arsenic the once-rare Category 5 crashes into Florida.

As galore arsenic six cardinal residents of the authorities and adjacent regions are nether hurricane ticker warnings, with galore being ordered to evacuate, adjacent arsenic commercialized aerial question hubs like Tampa International Airport program aboriginal closures successful beforehand of the storm.

Ventusky's tracker, below, is actively synthesizing meteorological information to some illustration and predict Hurricane Milton's way of demolition now.

Data scientists and representatives for Ventusky explained that Hurricane Milton's forecast was 'unusual' due to the fact that it was happening astir successful parallel to the interaction of Hurricane Kirk's cresting stormfront arsenic it smacks into southwestern France.

'In conscionable 24 hours, Hurricane Milton intensified from a tropical tempest to a Major Category 4 hurricane,' the upwind information institution posted to their account of X.com.

'Its enactment is intelligibly disposable connected the outer astatine night, with a cloudless oculus rapidly forming successful the center,' the steadfast noted successful their station of the overnight outer video.

Meteorologists usage the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale to specify these storms into 5 categories of expanding severity. 

The infamous Hurricane Katrina which devastated New Orleans successful 2005, was lone a Category 1 tempest with upwind speeds reaching determination betwixt 74 and 95 mph — capable to critically breach the levees that flooded the city.

As a Category 5, Milton volition much intimately lucifer 1992's Hurricane Andrew and 2018's Hurricane Michael: 2 of the uncommon hurricanes to person deed the United States arsenic a Category 5 since 1900, according to the National Weather Service.

As a Category 5, Hurricane Andrew destroyed 99 percent of each the mobile homes (1167 retired of 1176 homes) in the metropolis of Homestead successful confederate Florida's Miami-Dade County.

At slightest 15 nonstop deaths and 28 indirect deaths were attributed to Andrew during its catastrophic pummeling of the mainland, with forecasters expecting Hurricane Milton to beryllium nary little deadly.