Hurricane Milton: Travel warning as Brits heading to the US must take urgent action

The UK's Foreign Office has issued warnings to British visitors to Florida up of the imminent accomplishment of Hurricane Milton connected Wednesday, with an utmost information to life

Brits either heading to Florida oregon already successful the beleaguered US authorities person been warned to instrumentality urgent enactment up of the accomplishment of Hurricane Milton.

Officials person told their radical to evacuate from the areas acceptable to beryllium deed hardest connected Wednesday, with immense 10 ft tempest surges feared arsenic good arsenic 150mph winds. The storm’s wrath could bring demolition to areas already reeling from Helene's devastation 12 days agone and inactive recovering from Ian's wrath 2 years ago. It has present reached Mexico, and Florida is next. Thousands of Brits are among those successful the Sunshine State, who volition beryllium battening down arsenic the monolithic tempest thunders through.

The Foreign Office has warned those successful the country oregon travelling to Florida: “Hurricane Milton is expected to marque landfall connected the westbound seashore of Florida connected the nighttime of 9 October oregon greeting of 10 October with tropical unit winds affecting the westbound seashore from the greeting of 9 October. There is an expanding hazard of life-threatening tempest surge and precocious winds connected the westbound seashore and dense rainfall and precocious winds are expected to interaction ample parts of Florida.

“You should show approaching storms connected the US National Hurricane Center website , travel instructions from section authorities, including evacuation orders, sojourn the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) website for accusation connected preparing for utmost weather and evacuating and cheque with your hose oregon question cause astir imaginable disruption to flights oregon airdrome services and travel their advice.”

The question proposal besides covers American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and United States Virgin Islands.

Traffic is heavy successful the authorities arsenic radical fled the Tampa country up of Milton. As they evacuated, crews on the seashore hurried to wide Helene's debris truthful Milton does not crook it into unsafe projectiles. Milton strengthened to a Category 5 tempest connected Monday earlier weakening Tuesday to a Category 4.

Gov. Ron DeSantis said during a greeting quality conference: “You bash not person to get connected the interstate and spell acold away. You tin evacuate tens of miles, you bash not person to evacuate hundreds of miles away. You bash person options."

Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando and SeaWorld volition each adjacent their taxable parks and respective amusement facilities connected Wednesday, with the second 2 besides closed connected Thursday and Disney apt to stay closed. Universal besides cancelled Halloween Horror Nights scheduled for some days. The taxable parks articulation Orlando International Airport, which said it would cease operations Wednesday morning.