Hurricane Milton updates: Tracker shows dangerous path of Category 4 storm as Florida residents are warned to 'get out now'

'Walt Disney World Resort is presently operating nether mean conditions,' the amusement parkland said successful a Sunday announcement.

'We are intimately monitoring the way of the projected tempest arsenic we proceed to prioritize the information of our Guests and Cast Members,'

Disney has a way grounds of lone closing nether the direst conditions.

While forecast models alteration widely, the astir apt way suggests Milton could marque landfall Wednesday successful the Tampa Bay area and stay a hurricane arsenic it moves crossed cardinal Florida into the Atlantic Ocean.

The latest exemplary from the National Weather Service shows Milton making landfall successful Tampa Bay connected Wednesday afternoon.

Attorney General Ashley Moody asked residents who are refusing to evacuate to instrumentality measures which would assistance responders place them if they perish successful the hurricane.

'You astir apt request to constitute your sanction successful imperishable marker connected your limb truthful that radical cognize who you are erstwhile they get to you afterwards,' she warned astatine a quality conference.

The National Hurricane Center upgraded Milton to a Category 4 hurricane aboriginal Monday morning.

This means Milton is expected to bring 'catastrophic damage', with winds of up to 156mph and tempest surges of up to 9 feet.

'Most trees volition beryllium snapped oregon uprooted and powerfulness poles downed,' the National Hurricane Center said.

'Fallen trees and powerfulness poles volition isolate residential areas. Power outages volition past weeks to perchance months. Most of the country volition beryllium uninhabitable for weeks oregon months.'

The halfway issued a hurricane ticker for Florida's Gulf seashore from Chokoloskee to the rima of the Suwanee River, including Tampa Bay, arsenic good arsenic for the Dry Tortugas.

Meanwhile, a tempest surge ticker covers the Gulf seashore from Flamingo northward to the Suwannee River, including Charlotte Harbor and Tampa Bay.

Florida residents person rushed to banal up connected supermarket supplies successful mentation for the incoming deluge.

Shelves person been near bare successful 1 Walmart successful the Gulf Coast metropolis of Sarasota - 1 of the archetypal places expected to beryllium deed by the hurricane connected Wednesday.