Tropical Storm Nicole grew even stronger overnight and is expected to make landfall Wednesday night along the east coast of Florida as a Category 1 hurricane.
Nicole is currently large tropical storm. Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 460 miles especially to the north of the center. During the past few hours, a National Ocean Service station at the Lake Worth Pier reported sustained winds of 44 mph and a wind gust of 55 mph.
Nicole is then expected to weaken while moving across Florida and the southeastern United States on Thursday through Friday, and it is likely to become a post-tropical cyclone by Friday night over the Mid-Atlantic states.What are Nicole's potential impacts? Nicole could trigger dangerous storm surge up to 5 feet in areas along the Florida and Georgia coasts, and water levels could reach up to 6 feet in the Bahamas, according to the NHC.
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