Florida is preparing for Hurricane Milton to make landfall just weeks after Helene caused widespread destruction.

As a potentially devastating Hurricane Milton barrels toward Florida’s Gulf coast, both the Tampa and Orlando airports have announced they will be shutting down commercial operations ahead of the storm’s landfall.

Not even two weeks after Hurricane Helene swamped the Florida coastline, Milton strengthened into a major hurricane that is headed toward the state. The system is threatening the densely populated Tampa metro area — which has a population of more than 3.