Heavy rain will fall from the Southeast to Canada.
Nicole officially made landfall near Vero Beach, Fla., around 3 a.m. Thursday as a Category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 75 mph. As the storm blasted ashore, it unleashed peak gusts of 84 and 80 mph near Daytona Beach and in Melbourne. An elevated weather station at Cape Canaveral, 120 feet off the ground, clocked a gust to 100 mph.reports that service had been restored to all but 40,000 customers as of Friday morning.
Because of that, there isn’t as much of a gradient, or change of air pressure with distance, to support strong winds. That’s why all the winds associated with Nicole are below tropical storm force. It’s like sledding; you’ll accelerate faster if the gradient, or slope, is greater and the hill is steeper. Since Nicole’s gradient is weakening, its winds are diminishing.
Those thunderstorms will build into a highly “sheared” atmosphere. In other words, Nicole is inducing a change of wind speed and/or direction height. That will encourage downpours and thunderstorms to rotate and perhaps even produce a few tornadoes.
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