Hurricane Nicole made landfall at 3 a.m. Thursday on North Hutchinson Island just south of Vero Beach, but quickly weakened to a tropical storm with 70 mph winds, the National Hurricane Center said.
Waves break at the Rikki Tiki Tavern in the Cocoa Beach Pier — Hurricane Nicole makes its way to Brevard County, on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. Nicole is expected to makie landfall on the East coast of Florida.
The storm is expected to take a diagonal path across the Florida peninsula, heading northwest and rapidly losing strength. By late afternoon, as it reaches the Gulf of Mexico, its top winds are expected to fall to 50 mph, the hurricane center said. A 62 mph gust was reported in Juno Beach, as the storm’s vast wind field reached South Florida and the region started to shut down in“Most of the wind we’ve seen so far has been confined to coastal Palm Beach,” said Chris Fisher, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Miami. “We’ve gotten some reports of coastal flooding up there around high tide this morning.”
At least five counties are under a hurricane warning, and all interior counties of east central Florida are under a tropical storm warning, according to the weather service. The entire east central Florida coast is under a storm surge warning, with the potential for 3 to 5 feet of surge above ground. The weather service forecasted that some waves will be greater than 10 feet in those areas.
Schools closed throughout South Florida, Brevard County, Martin County and St. Lucie counties Wednesday and Thursday.
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