This story was updated to correct a typo.
Hurricane Milton, which reached Category 5 status with maximum sustained winds of 175 miles per hour Monday afternoon as it churns in the Gulf of Mexico, has not yet impacted the Jaguars’ plans as they prepare to travel from Jacksonville to London, England on Thursday.
The Jaguars are scheduled for back-to-back international games in Weeks 6-7, against the Chicago Bears at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Oct. 13 and the New England Patriots at Wembley Stadium on Oct. 20, both in London.
“Right now we’re still on schedule to leave Thursday night, or Thursday afternoon, evening, whatever it is. 5:30 [p.m. ET], I think,” Pederson said Monday. “We’re going to monitor it, where it hits and how it comes this way. But as of right now, everything is still normal.”
As of Monday afternoon, the National Hurricane Center projects Hurricane Milton to make landfall around Tampa on Wednesday evening and likely ravage central Florida, moving across the state toward the greater Atlantic Ocean with a risk of hitting Jacksonville as a weakened storm.