Hurricane Milton: Landfall downgraded to Category 4 (live updates)
Update 7:13 a.m. ET, Oct. 8: Hurricane Milton has been downgraded to a Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 155MPH. The National Hurricane Center said that at 5 a.m. ET, the hurricane was just north of the Yucatan Peninsula” and posed “an extremely serious threat to Florida.” It was about 560 miles southwest of Tampa at the time.