Florida's east coast is under a hurricane watch as the state grapples with Hurricane Ian's devastation - CNN

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A uncommon November hurricane could batter Florida’s eastbound seashore this week arsenic residents effort to retrieve from deadly Hurricane Ian.

Subtropical Storm Nicole is forecast to support strengthening and is expected to beryllium a Category 1 hurricane erstwhile it approaches Florida’s eastbound seashore precocious Wednesday into Thursday morning, the National Hurricane Center said Monday.

Warmer than mean water waters successful the portion volition let strengthening arsenic the strategy develops and could pb to the enactment of a November hurricane, CNN Meteorologist Brandon Miller said.

The past hurricane to onslaught the US successful November was Hurricane Kate successful 1985.

A hurricane ticker is present successful effect on the eastbound seashore of Florida, from the Volusia/Brevard region enactment to Hallandale Beach, the National Hurricane Center said.

The ticker extends from conscionable northbound of Miami to the Space Coast and includes Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Cape Canaveral and Melbourne.

A tempest surge ticker has besides been issued for parts of Florida and Georgia, from Altamaha Sound to Hallandale Beach.

Florida officials person warned residents – including immoderate precocious deed by devastating Hurricane Ian – that the caller tempest could bring dense rainfall and damaging winds this week.

“Heavy rainfall, coastal flooding, gale unit winds and rip tides volition interaction eastbound Florida and the southeast US,” CNN Meteorologist Robert Shackelford said.

Rainfalls successful the Sunshine State could scope betwixt 2 and 4 inches, with isolated amounts perchance exceeding 6 inches, Shackelford said.

Already, the US territories of Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands are nether a flash flood ticker done Monday afternoon, and tropical tempest watches are successful effect for northwest Bahamas.

Areas southbound of Tampa – immoderate of which are inactive trying to retrieve from Hurricane Ian’s demolition successful September – could get drenched with 2 to 4 inches of rain.

Orlando could get 1 to 2 inches of rain, and areas southbound of Jacksonville could beryllium deed with 1 to 4 inches.

Ahead of the storm, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis urged residents Sunday to instrumentality precautions.

“I promote each Floridians to beryllium prepared and marque a program successful the lawsuit a tempest impacts Florida,” DeSantis said successful a quality release.

DeSantis said residents should hole for an accrued hazard of coastal flooding, dense winds, rain, rip currents and formation erosion.

On Tuesday, Election Day, overmuch of the Florida Peninsula tin expect breezy to gusty conditions. Chances of rainfall are expected to summation passim the time for cardinal and eastbound cities specified arsenic Miami northbound to Daytona Beach and inland toward Orlando and Okeechobee.

“Conditions whitethorn deteriorate arsenic aboriginal arsenic Tuesday and persist into Thursday night/Friday morning,” the National Weather Service successful Miami said.

“Impacts to South Florida whitethorn see rip currents, coastal flooding, unsafe surf/marine conditions, flooding rainfall, beardown sustained winds, and waterspouts/tornadoes.”

DeSantis said officials are coordinating with section exigency absorption authorities crossed the state’s 67 counties.

The extremity is to “identify imaginable assets gaps and to instrumentality plans that volition let the authorities to respond rapidly and efficiently up of the imaginable strengthening” of the tempest system, the connection said.

Hurricane Ian made landfall September 28 arsenic a beardown Category 4 tempest connected the westbound seashore of the Florida peninsula, packing winds of astir 150 mph.

The ferocious tempest killed astatine slightest 120 radical successful Florida, destroyed galore homes and leveled tiny communities. Thousands of radical were without powerfulness oregon h2o for moving days.