Milton intensifies to category five as ‘storm of the century’ heads to Florida

Hurricane Milton has been upgraded to a category five storm and is due to make landfall in Florida on Wednesday night

Sustained wind speeds of up to 165mph (270km/h) have been recorded, with President Joe Biden warning the storm could be the worst to hit the US state in a century

He urged those in Milton’s path to evacuate immediately and warned it was a matter of “life and death”, while Florida’s emergencies chief said storm surges are “not survivable” in some areas

The storm comes less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene hit the Gulf Coast as a category four storm – it killed at least 225 people across Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina (BBC News)

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