Milton becomes a major hurricane

FOX 13 meteorologist Dave Osterberg is tracking Hurricane Helene, which rapidly intensified into a major Category 3 storm Monday morning. It's expected to make landfall on Florida's Gulf Coast late Wednesday.

Tampa weather | Tracking Hurricane Milton

FOX 13 meteorologist Dave Osterberg has the latest on Hurricane Milton, which is expected to make landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast as a major hurricane sometime on Wednesday.

Tropical Storm Milton gaining strength

FOX 13's Valerie Mills says Milton is expected to hit Florida as a major hurricane. The storm could make landfall near Tampa Bay but the track is still uncertain.

Tropical system developing in Gulf

FOX 13 News Meteorologist Valerie Mills says development chances have increased and it is likely that we will see something develop in the Gulf of Mexico later this weekend – early next week. Odds are now up to 70% over the next two days that this area forms.

Tropical disturbance could develop and move into Gulf

FOX 13 meteorologist Valerie Mills says an area of low pressure in the Caribbean could develop in the next few days, then move into the Gulf of Mexico. According to Mills, the disturbance could bring heavy rain to Florida this weekend and into next week.

Tropical disturbance to bring rain to Florida

FOX 13 meteorologist Valerie Mills is keeping an eye on the active tropics as we end September. So far there has been 11 named storms, with Tropical Storm Kirk forming on Monday morning. Mills is watching a system in the Caribbean that has a 40% chance of developing over the next week. She says that it is slow developing so it likely won’t move into the Gulf of Mexico until the weekend. She notes that models show the system being fairly weak, but she cautions that it is too early to tell how strong it will get and where it will go. However, once it gets into the central part of the Gulf, it will likely bring rain to Florida. Tropical Storm Kirk is expected to strengthen into a ‘major hurricane’ but Mills says it will likely stay over open waters. A tropical wave off the coast of Africa has an 80% chance of development over the next seven days. Isaac is now a post-tropical storm and Joyce is a depression. Both are expected to stay over open waters. The next named storm will be Leslie.

Area of low pressure in Caribbean could form

FOX 13 News Meteorologist Valerie Mills says an area of low pressure in the western Caribbean could form and is moving northwest into the Gulf of Mexico. Mills says a wave in the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Joyce and Hurricane Isaac are also being monitored.

Helene downgraded to tropical storm

FOX 13 meteorologist Dave Osterberg has the latest on Tropical Storm Helene and how tropical moisture will continue to impact conditions in the Bay Area through the weekend.