Timelapse satellite imagery shows Hurricane Milton as it barreled through the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida over October 8 and 9.The Colorado-based Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) posted two animations. The first depicts the storm over a roughly 24-hour period up to 10:36 am on Wednesday, October 9, while the second animation, which contains infrared imagery, spans the roughly two-hour period from 8:20 am to 10:30 am on Wednesday, CIRA said.Milton was expected to make landfall in Florida on Wednesday evening, bringing devastating wind and rain and a “destructive storm surge” of 10 feet or more along Florida’s west-central coast, according to the National Hurricane Center. Credit: CSU/CIRA & NOAA via Storyful