&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Nicole_2022-11-10_0620Z_colored.jpg) Hurricane Nicole shortly before landfall in eastern Florida on November 10 | |
| Meteorological history | |
|---|---|
| Formed | November 7, 2022 |
| Dissipated | November 11, 2022 |
| Category 1 hurricane | |
| 1-minute sustained (SSHWS/NWS) | |
| Highest winds | 75 mph (120 km/h) |
| Lowest pressure | 980 mbar (hPa); 28.94 inHg |
| Overall effects | |
| Fatalities | 11 indirect |
| Damage | $1 billion (2022 USD) |
| Areas affected | Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, The Bahamas, Southeastern United States |
| IBTrACS / [1] | |
Part of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season | |
Hurricane Nicole was a sprawling late-season Category 1 hurricane in November 2022. The fourteenth named storm and eighth hurricane of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, Nicole formed as a subtropical cyclone on November 7, from a non-tropical area of low pressure near the Greater Antilles, and transitioned into a tropical cyclone the next day. Then, taking a path similar to that of Hurricane Dorian three years earlier,[2] Nicole made landfall on November 9, on Great Abaco and on Grand Bahama in The Bahamas, where it strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane. On November 10, it made landfall twice in Florida, south of Vero Beach and then northwest of Cedar Key, after briefly emerging over the Gulf of Mexico. Nicole then weakened to a depression while moving over the Florida Panhandle, and then was absorbed into a mid-latitude trough and cold front over extreme eastern Tennessee the following day.
Nicole became the third November hurricane on record to make landfall in Florida, along with the 1935 Yankee hurricane and Hurricane Kate in 1985.[3] Nicole crossed the same region in Florida devastated six weeks earlier by Hurricane Ian, and was the first hurricane to make landfall on Florida's east coast since Katrina in 2005. Despite being relatively weak, Nicole's large size produced widespread heavy rainfall and strong winds across the Greater Antilles, the Bahamas, and Florida, knocking out power and inflicting significant damage in many areas. Days of strong on-shore wind flow onto the east coast of Florida produced severe beach erosion, especially in Volusia, St. Johns, and Flagler counties. Eleven indirect deaths altogether have been connected to the storm, six in the Dominican Republic and five in Florida.[1]
- ^ a b Beven, John; Alaka, Laura (March 17, 2023). "Tropical Cyclone Report Hurricane Nicole" (PDF). National Hurricane Center. Retrieved March 17, 2023.
- ^ Charles, Jacqueline (November 10, 2022). "Nicole brings 'extensive flooding' to Bahamas as it intensifies to a hurricane". Miami Herald. Retrieved November 16, 2022.
- ^ Frisaro, Freida; Coto, Dánica (November 10, 2022). "Hurricane Nicole forms; Florida awaits rare November storm". ABC News. Associated Press. Retrieved November 13, 2022.