Evacuation orders in place as Hurricane Nicole makes landfall before weakening to a tropical storm.
Hurricane Nicole hit Florida on Thursday with 70mph winds but has been downgraded to a tropical storm after it slowed on making landfall.
Nicole has already lashed Grand Bahama Island as a huge category one hurricane, with the scale of the devastation not immediately clear.After Florida, Nicole is set to hit Georgia and South Carolina.November hurricanes are rare in Florida. Since record-keeping began in 1853, the sunshine state has been hit by only two: in 1935 and 1985.Nicole comes just weeks after Hurricane Ian hit Florida, leaving more than 100 people dead.
A tropical storm warning is in place for the mid-section of Florida's eastern coast which includes former president Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in West Palm Beach, with the NHC warning of "strong winds, dangerous storm surge and waves, and heavy rains". The arrival of Nicole is also expected to further disrupt a long-delayed Nasa rocket launch, which aims to bring American's one-step closer to returning to the Moon.
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