Nicole is expected to weaken while moving across Florida and the southeastern United States and is likely to become a post-tropical cyclone by Friday afternoon.
More than 100,000 Florida homes and businesses are without power after Hurricane Nicole made landfall along the east coast of Florida early Thursday.
Nicole arrived as a Category 1 hurricane on North Hutchinson Island, just south of Vero Beach, with maximum sustained winds of 75 miles per hour, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said. At around 4 a.m. EST, the center reported Nicole was now a"large" tropical storm with maximum sustained winds at nearly 70 miles per hour, centered over east-central Florida and moving west-northwest at nearly 14 miles per hour.
"A dangerous storm surge is expected" along parts of the coast of Florida and Georgia along with"large and damaging" waves, the NHC warned in a bulletin. Tropical storm warnings are in place from near Boca Raton, Florida, to halfway up the South Carolina coast. Palm trees are pounded by high tide and winds at Causeway Beach Park before Hurricane Nicole makes landfall in Jensen Beach, Florida, on November 9, 2022. More than 100,000 Florida homes and businesses are without power after Hurricane Nicole made landfall along the east coast of Florida early Thursday.
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