"Hurricane Michael raced toward the Florida Panhandle on Tuesday, threatening to bring the ferocious rains and winds of a powerful tropical cyclone to the coast and hundreds of miles inland.

As of 2 a.m. Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center said that the hurricane had maximum sustained winds of 90 miles per hour and was moving north-northwest at 12 m.p.h. from an offshore position near Cuba’s western tip.

The storm is expected to make landfall over the Panhandle on Wednesday and could be classified as a major hurricane, with wind speeds of at least 111 m.p.h. As of early Tuesday, a hurricane warning was in effect for a western Cuban province and portions of the Gulf Coast."

The New York Times had the story October 9, 2018. [2]