Expect difficult driving conditions if your trucking travels take you to much of Florida in the next several days.
Yet another dangerous storm -- Hurricane Milton -- is heading across the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to arrive on Florida's west coast Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. The National Weather Service National Hurricane Center says Milton has already reached Category 5 status and is expected to cause "life-threatening storm surge and damaging winds" along much of Florida's west coast, where mass evacuations are already underway.
Category 5 is the highest ranking for hurricanes.
Milton's winds have already reached. 160 mph. However, Milton is expected to weaken but grow wider as it approaches Florida, according to the hurricane center. Rainfall amounts are expected to be between 5 and 10 inches.
Milton's arrival comes just a week after Hurricane Helene struck Florida's panhandle and continued a destructive path across much of the southeast, but especially western North Carolina.
The death toll for Helene stands at 236 in six states, making it the second deadliest storm since Katrina in 2005.
Some 300,000 residents and businesses remain without power.
