Hurricane Milton, now Category 4, is nearing Florida and expected to make landfall a fortnight after Helene. Nearly 700 U.S. flights are canceled Tuesday and more than 1,500 are already canceled for Wednesday, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware.

The Category 4 hurricane had weakened slightly but is still expected to pack some devastating hurricane-force winds, according to the National Hurricane Center, and could produce historic floods. Over the weekend,

Hurricane Milton is disrupting air, passenger ship and other forms of travel in Florida and beyond as the giant storm barrels toward the state's western coast. As of Tuesday afternoon, airlines had canceled a total of 702 flights within,