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DEADLINE<\/strong>: Hurricane Milton\u00a0has officially became one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin. Milton\u2019s maximum sustained winds reached 180 mph late Monday, then declined to 155 mph as the storm skimmed across the top of Cancun, Mexico. It is now a Category 4 cyclone and expected explode in size as it approaches\u00a0Florida, making landfall as a Category 3 major hurricane.<\/p>

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More important than windspeed \u2014 and\u00a0meteorologists say more accurate\u00a0\u2014 is the storm\u2019s barometric pressure. Pressure more accurately predicts damage from storm surge, inland flooding and tornadoes as well as storm size or storm duration over a community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To that point, Milton\u2019s pressure dropped to 897 millibars on Monday night. That\u2019s the fifth-lowest reading ever seen in the Atlantic Basin. The other storms in that group are Rita in 2005 at 895 mb, the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 at 892 mb, Gilbert in 1988 at 888 mb and Wilma in 2005 at 882 mb. Since dropping to 897, Milton\u2019s pressure has since come up to 924 mb.<\/p>

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