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Salon
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Marin Scotten

Hurricane Milton closing in on Florida

Hurricane Milton is inching closer towards Florida's Gulf Coast and is expected to make landfall as "an extremely dangerous major hurricane" late Wednesday night or Thursday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). 

The Category 4 storm is now about 160 miles southwest of Tampa and is moving at 17mph winds of 145 mph, which is down slightly from 160 mph early Tuesday morning, according to the latest NHC update.

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