SUP Magazine: Hurricane Milton Reaches Historic Milestone as Storm Targets Florida

Hurricane Milton strengthened into an extremely dangerous Category Five hurricane today, growing from Tropical Storm strength just one day ago and undergoing one of the fastest rapid intensification processes of all time in the North Atlantic. According to the National Hurricane Center , Milton went through the third-fastest rapid intensification process in history, behind only Hurricane Wilma (2005) and Hurricane Felix (2007). Rapid intensification is defined as a windspeed gain of at le...