CNN meteorologist Derek Van Dam breaks down the latest forecast after Hurricane Milton made landfall on Florida’s west coast.

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Hurricane Milton has made landfall as a Category Three system, causing tornadoes and widespread damage across parts of Florida.

Hurricane Milton

Hurricane Milton has left over 3 million residents in Florida without power after making landfall on the state's west coast. The tropical cyclone brought strong wind gusts and heavy rainfall, prompting hurricane warnings along the space coast and flash flood warnings around Daytona Beach. Clearwater Beach experienced 14 inches of rain, while St. Petersburg saw 18 inches, with nine inches falling in just three hours. As a result, there have been significant water rescues in Hillsborough County and Clearwater, highlighting the severe impact of the storm.

Despite the storm moving away from the space coast, residual impacts persist. Storm surges ranging from three to five feet have affected areas such as Venice Beach, Fort Myers, and Naples, causing noticeable water damage to homes and businesses. Compared to Hurricane Ian in 2022, Milton's surge is slightly lower but remains a serious concern for coastal residents.

The powerful winds that accompanied Milton, especially near its landfall around Siesta Key, have played a part in disrupting the electricity supply across the state. Reports indicate a record number of tornado warnings were issued in a single day in Florida, with a notable tornado causing destruction in Palm Beach County, lighting up the sky as it downed transformers.



More than 3 million without power after Milton slams Florida

Milton is looking like a former shell of himself, right? It is sheared. It is destroyed in many regards, and it's pulling away from the space coast rather quickly. But of course, the threats still remain, and we'll try and highlight those as best we can. You can see hurricane warnings remain along the space coast, stretching as far north as the northern portions of the Atlantic Florida coastline. In fact, we're getting gusts to 58 miles per hour right now in Daytona Beach. So that is still dangerous conditions as the outer rain bands of the backside of Milton continue to wrap in from the Atlantic coastline. This produced a prolific amount of rain right here. Specifically, you can see it on this radar estimate. That's where over 10 inches of rain has fallen. And we heard from Isabella's great reporting about the water rescues that are taking place in Hillsborough County, and then into the Clearwater area right now. Clearwater Beach saw 14 inches, St. Petersburg, 18 inches. There was nine inches of that rain in St. Petersburg that fell in a three-hour period. So you can imagine just how much ponding and flooding that caused. So here it is, the eye of the storm, still pulling away from the space coast, but it's wrapping in that rainfall. So there are still active flash flood warnings in place in and around Daytona Beach. And with that onshore push, three to five feet of storm surge still an issue for our coastal communities before the system said and done and pulls completely away. These are the record, or rather the storm surge totals, the highest totals that we saw. Venice Beach, just a little over five feet, Fort Myers, 5.27 feet, and into Naples, roughly just over five feet. And of course, that's not as high as what Ian brought in 2022, but still a significant amount of surge that will obviously leave some homes and businesses with water damage this morning. Wind gusts over a hundred miles per hour, right where the storm made landfall, again, just near Siesta Key. And this has knocked down over 3 million customers across the state of Florida without power right now. And we know that these approaching hurricanes are prolific tornado makers. Well, this was just one example of one of the tornadoes that dropped from the sky. And this is on the East Coast of Florida. So this is coming out of the Palm Beach County region, and that is a significant destructive tornado. You can see it lighting up the sky, breaking down transformers. This is incredible, John. There were the record number of tornado warnings that were issued in one day's time across the state of Florida yesterday. That was just one of them. You can see the others from previous hurricanes as well.

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