Hurricane Milton is churning through the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida as an 'extremely dangerous' storm that could wallop one of the state’s major population centers just two weeks after Hurricane Helene.

Hurricane Milton intensifies as it moves through the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida. What we know about the potentially devastating hurricane.

Hurricane Milton strengthened rapidly in the southern Gulf of Mexico on Monday as it skirted the northern edge of the Yucatan peninsula, home to tourist hotspots and cargo ports, with a strike expected on Florida this week.