Dozens of tornadoes spotted in Florida ahead of Hurricane Milton

Multiple tornadoes were spotted in Florida as a weakening but still tremendously powerful Hurricane Milton slammed into the state’s west coast on Wednesday night, arriving as a category 3 storm and leaving more than 2m homes without power.

The cyclone, described earlier in the day by Joe Biden as 'the storm of the century', made landfall near Sarasota, Florida, just after 8.30pm ET, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said. It brought deadly storm surge to much of Florida’s Gulf coast, including densely populated areas such as Tampa, St Petersburg, Sarasota and Fort Myers. Despite losing some of its potency to wind shear as it neared the coast, Milton, which had churned in the Gulf of Mexico over the last two days as a category 5 storm, was still one of the strongest hurricanes to strike the US mainland in recent memory

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[lovejetfuel]

So odd and surreal to see Tornados this big in Florida

[arsenaljoel]

Mental they build there houses out of timber

[JelMain]

There were over a hundred warnings, although many were extensions due to tornadoes not lifting.

[Shrieki]

I just got my WiFi and power back I’m in Florida😣

[kenw]

How could two tornados be formed so close to each other?

[hannah]

My thoughts and best wishes are with everyone in Florida and all affected areas, hope you manage to evacuate, stay safe and that your homes etc are ok for when you can return🤞🤗

[Twister-cjm]

Tornadoes that size in Florida are so rare. They look like Ef3s.
Usually are smaller. Ef0 to Ef1.
Miami has more funnel clouds than touch downs.
And a lot more water spouts than small land tornadoes

[atomalexander]

As far as I know, Florida hasn’t had large intense tornadoes (that they appear to be) since the Kissimmee outbreak in February of 1998.

[Fandud.spider]

That's an landfall not an tornado 🌪

[martinbrookes]

Up to 5 million people without electricity . What use electric cars now ?

[FreddieMercury]

Wasn't it predicted to be a category 5?

[heatrayzvideo]

It reminds of that film about tornados, think it's called jurassic park

[trudilm]

All this, just to destroy Mar-A-Lago.

[FaReached]

Milton or Missiles… human sufferings are endless…!

[disasterpiece]

There's two things that America does better than anyone else, anti gravity aircraft and modifying the weather.

[jennydecorr]

Siempre hay tornados en florida mejor mudence a otro lugar

[bigbarty]

I wonder if this is true, you can never be sure with the Guardian.

[annemccabe]

Mother Earth is crying out!
As the Native Americans have said this many times.

[peterrobins]

Could this have been generated because Trump lives there? 😅😂

[ScottFairley-svyg]

If I was a christian, as many Americans are, how would I be interpreting this?