Milton was expected to to become a hurricane late Sunday, with "steady and rapid strengthening" forecast over the next few days.

Milton is likely to become a major hurricane before hitting Florida on Wednesday, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The threat of another hurricane comes over a week after Hurricane Helene first made landfall as a Category 4 storm in Florida on Sept. 26. Helene has delivered damaging wind gusts and “catastrophic, life-threatening, [and] record-breaking” flooding in many areas.