A look at Milton in the Gulf of MexicoOn the heels of Hurricane Helene, the Category 4 storm that wrecked Florida's Gulf coast and most of the Southeast, the tropics are not slowing down.Sign up for our NewslettersRELATED: Chopper 2 video shows extensive Hurricane Helene damage in St.

Milton is forecast to rapidly intensify in the next couple of days in the Gulf of Mexico and become a major hurricane on Monday, forecasters said.

Hurricane Milton, which formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday afternoon as a tropical storm, strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane on Sunday. As CBS News reports, it's projected to make landfall by Wednesday as a Category 3 hurricane along the west coast of Tampa,