Hurricane Nicole has become a category one storm as it lands on Florida’s Atlantic coast. Nicole’s landfall hit the southern part of Vero Beach on Thursday morning. The rising water went onshore and lashed the state with heavy rainfall and strong winds.
Nichole’s movements
With a speed of wind up to 75 mph, Nicole hit when some cities could not recover from Hurricane Ian, a category four storm hitting Florida only weeks ago.
Hurricane Nicole was the first to hit the USA in November in almost four decades, and hurricane Kate made its landfall in the US in November 1985.
Nichole is a tropical storm now
The storm then weakened to become a post-tropical cyclone, likely hitting the Southeast. Officials soon discontinued hurricane warnings within an hour of Nicole’s landfall and only issued warnings of a tropical storm. National Hurricane Center warned that storm surge, heavy rainfall, and damaging waves would continue over a greater area.
Damages and the measures taken
On Wednesday, officials evacuated Volusia Country residents who live in structurally weaker buildings. Those buildings were damaged a few weeks earlier due to Hurricane Ian.
Storm surge, strong winds, and heavy rains were being reported from the time when Nicole started heading toward the coasts.
Almost 110k customers face power cut problems due to heavy storms. The officials are trying hard to restore electricity, informed the Power & Light department of Florida.
The officials said that the barrier island of Fort Lauderdale faced flooding due to a storm surge.
