CBS 44 Weather Authority Forecast: October 7, 2024

Warm and becoming breezy with increasing clouds midweek. Milton a formidable extremely dangerous Major Hurricane forecast to hit western Florida Peninsula particularly the Tampa Bay area with significant, life-threatening, and potentially catastrophic impacts from destructive hurricane-force winds, storm surge up to 10-15 feet, and urban, flash, and riverine flooding. If you have friends or family in Florida & local officials ordered evacuations, GET OUT ASAP! No direct impacts to SWGA, but indirect, peripheral impacts of gusty winds near 30-40 mph or less and a slight risk of flash flooding for far eastern communities & SE GA in hardest hit areas of Helene. Because of damaged infrastructure and weakened trees it may not take much wind for isolated instances of more damage. Breezy Wednesday & Thursday. Morning lows drop into the 50s.

Matthew Crumley
@MattCBS44

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