Hurricane Milton, a Category 3 out of 5 storm, made landfall in Florida, in the southeastern United States, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) announced on Wednesday evening, October 9.

"Extremely dangerous," it arrived over the west coast of Florida "near Siesta Key, in Sarasota County," wrote the US agency in its bulletin at 8 pm local time. It has already battered the coast with violent winds of up to 165 km/h and heavy rain, flooding the central part of the peninsula.

According to the Poweroutage.us website, which lists areas affected by power cuts, more than two million homes and businesses were without electricity at midnight.