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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
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
