Tropical Storm Nicole intensifying as it heads towards the Bahamas and Florida

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Source: Yale Climate Connections

Tropical Storm Nicole intensifying as it heads towards the Bahamas and Florida

The large storm will bring impacts far to the north of its center, with coastal flooding expected all the way to North Carolina.

Nicole made the transition from a subtropical storm to a tropical storm Tuesday morning, and this change in structure has allowed it to begin an intensification phase. Nicole has made a turn to the west toward the northwestern Bahamas and Florida and is expected to make landfall early Thursday morning in Florida as a category 1 hurricane. Because of Nicole’s large size, impacts from the storm will extend far to the north, and a damaging storm surge is likely along most of the Southeast U.S. coast from central Florida to North Carolina.

Nicole is a large storm – and that means widespread coastal flooding

At 1 p.m. EST Tuesday, Nicole was centered about 420 miles east of West Palm Beach, Florida, headed west at 9 mph, with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph and a central pressure of 992 mb. Satellite images showed that Nicole still had somewhat of a subtropical appearance, with heavy thunderstorm activity in wide bands arcing to the west, north, and east of the center. However, Nicole had developed a concentrated area of intensifying heavy thunderstorms near its circulation center, and this change in structure prompted the National Hurricane Center (NHC) to define Nicole as a tropical storm rather than a subtropical storm on Tuesday morning. Thunderstorm coverage was thin on the south side, though, where dry air was present.

Nicole was a large storm, with tropical-storm-force winds that covered a region of ocean larger than the state of Florida. The breadth of Nicole’s tropical-storm-force winds is remarkable; less than 2% of all 6-hourly named storm “fixes” since 2004 showed such a large wind field, according to Michael Lowry.


Read more: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2022/11/tropical-storm-nicole-intensifying-as-it-heads-towards-the-bahamas-and-florida/

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Also: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

[dchill]

1. Governor Ron DeChosenbygod will be ready to take charge...

... of demanding up-front Federal money from Joe Biden!

[Deep State Witch]

2. West Palm Beach?

Come on, Nicole! Take out Mar-a-Lardo!

[Evolve Dammit]

3. Full force Cat 5 on Magat Lardo. All Hands Lost (more than usual...; in physical sense)

[Old Crank]

4. If the path follows the predictions

Florida is in for a huge amount of rain as Nicole goes over then back across.
I hope they have their boots and boats ready.

[mcar]

8. I expect we'll have flooding

Not directly near me but in my county. We're already saturated.

If you look at the NHC cone and see the first "S" in mainland FL, that's me. So tired of this.

[CaptainTruth]

5. Wind is already picking up at our place, I've battened down the hatches.

[Emile]

6. God must be angry with Florida and republican politics.

[William769]

7. As someone that lives in Florida.

I don't blame God, I blame climate change! That, of course goes back to the republican party.

[mcar]

9. Yes and yes

Glad you are in a safer area this time.

[ancianita]

10. We on the west coast have been feeling it all afternoon and evening.

20 mph winds and rain. It will die down by tomorrow.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. TFG is not evacuating and will stay at Mar-a-Lago through storm

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