November 10, 2022 - Hurricane Nicole Approaching Florida

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After making two landfalls in the Bahamas, Tropical Storm Nicole wound
up to take a big punch at Florida’s east coast as a Category 1
hurricane. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on
board NASA’s Terra satellite acquired a true-color image of
strengthening Tropical Storm Nicole on the afternoon of November 9,
2022, shortly before its center moved over Grand Bahama Island.

According to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), at 6:00 p.m. EST on
November 9, Nicole made landfall on Grand Bahama Island at the same
time it became a hurricane, with winds increasing to 75 mph (120 km/h).
Earlier in the day, at 11:55 a.m. EST it had first made landfall on
Great Abaco Island in the northwest Bahamas with an estimated intensity
of 70 mph (110 km/h). Early information from the Bahamas confirms power
outages, flooding, and downed trees but initial reports do not suggest
devastating damage.

As of 11:00 p.m. EST, the NHC advised that Hurricane Nicole was located
about 40 miles (65 km) northwest of Settlement Point, Grand Bahama
Island and about 50 miles (80 km) northeast of West Palm Beach,
Florida. It is maintaining maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (120 km/h)
as it moves west-northwest at 13 mph (20 km/h). The advisory states
that the hurricane has little time to strengthen before making landfall
in Florida, and weakening will occur while Nicole moves over that
state. The center may briefly emerge off the west coast of Florida and
the extreme northeastern Gulf of Mexico briefly before Nicole travels
across the southeastern United States to merge with another
extratropical low and dissipate.

Nicole is an extremely large and asymmetric storm, with an eye
measuring about 50 miles wide. While the center of the storm is
expected to cross onto land between Vero Beach and Port St. Lucie, as
of 11:30 p.m. EST the strongest winds appear to be in the northern
eyewall, which may batter areas as far north as Melbourne, where gusts
of 58 mph were measured shortly before midnight. Landfall is expected
early on November 10, likely between 3:00 and 4:00 a.m. EST.

Image Facts
Satellite: Terra
Date Acquired: 11/9/2022
Resolutions: 1km (644.6 KB), 500m (5.7 MB), 250m (4.5 MB)
Bands Used: 1,4,3
Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC



https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2022-11-10

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