👉 Hurricane Milton could be the worst storm to hit Florida in a century.

Milton could be the worst hurricane to hit Florida in a century, US President Joe Biden has warned. Milton, which is expected to make landfall in Florida on Wednesday, is the fastest-intensifying hurricane on record, prompting the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) to classify its intensification as not just rapid, but explosive. The Tampa Bay area, on Florida's Gulf Coast, has been hit by many hurricanes in recent decades, but it has been more than a century since the region was hit directly by a major hurricane.