Hurricane Nicole makes landfall in Florida - CNN

Palm trees are pounded by precocious tide and winds astatine Causeway Beach Park successful Jensen Beach, Florida connected November 9. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/AFP/Getty Images)

Hurricane Nicole made past when its landfall aboriginal Thursday greeting became the latest successful a calendar twelvemonth a hurricane has ever struck Florida's Atlantic coast.

Since Nicole maintained hurricane strength until landfall conscionable southbound of Vero Beach, it broke a erstwhile grounds acceptable by the Yankee Hurricane, which deed Florida's eastbound seashore connected November 4, 1935.

Nicole besides became the archetypal hurricane to marque landfall successful the US during November successful astir 40 years. Hurricane Kate successful November 1985 struck the Florida Panhandle.

The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30.

People brave rainfall and dense winds to sojourn the waterfront successful Jensen Beach, Florida, connected November 9. (Rebecca Blackwell/AP)

Hurricane Nicole has made landfall connected Florida’s Atlantic seashore conscionable southbound of Vero Beach arsenic a Category 1 hurricane aboriginal Thursday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center, sending rising water h2o onshore and lashing the authorities with damaging winds and dense rainfall.

The hurricane -- packing maximum sustained winds of up to 75 mph -- has arrived successful the Sunshine State arsenic immoderate cities are inactive recovering from Hurricane Ian, which deed Florida arsenic a Category 4 tempest conscionable weeks ago.

Nicole is the archetypal hurricane to marque landfall successful the US successful November successful astir 40 years. The past hurricane to bash truthful was Hurricane Kate successful 1985.

The tempest strategy should weaken to a slump aboriginal Friday and go a post-tropical cyclone implicit the Southeast.

Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood speaks during an interrogation successful Daytona Beach Shores, Florida, connected November 9. (WESH)

Ahead of Hurricane Nicole's arrival, deputies went doorway to door Wednesday evacuating residents from structurally unsound buildings successful Volusia County.

The sheriff said the buildings had suffered structural harm during Hurricane Ian, which deed Florida arsenic a catastrophic Category 4 tempest conscionable weeks ago.

Early tempest surge from Nicole eroded the seawall, making it imperative to evacuate residents, Chitwood told WESH.

In Surfside, Florida, portion of Champlain Towers South crumbled to the crushed past year, sidesplitting 98 people. Its illness was not storm-related.

In Daytona Beach Shores, 12 buildings were declared structurally unsafe Wednesday, according to the sheriff. In the unincorporated area Wilbur-by-the-Sea, 22 azygous homes were deemed unsafe and evacuated.

Hurricane Nicole is expected to soon marque landfall on Florida's eastbound coast, packing sustained maximum winds of 75 mph.

The ample tempest is astir 15 miles eastbound of Fort Pierce, Florida, churning towards the authorities astatine 14 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Heavy rains, beardown winds, unsafe tempest surge and waves are already being reported arsenic Nicole nears the coast.

NOAA buoy 41009, located astir 25 miles eastbound of Cape Canaveral, precocious reported a sustained upwind of 49 mph and a upwind gust of 65 mph. A upwind presumption astatine Patrick Air Force Base precocious reported a sustained upwind of 53 mph with a upwind gust of 61 mph.

A NOAA tide gauge astatine Fernandina Beach, astatine Florida's northeast corner, observed a h2o level of 4.5 feet supra Mean Higher High Water.

Here are immoderate hurricane presumption to familiarize yourself with:

Eye: The halfway of the tempest and besides the calmest portion of the storm, wherever you tin spot a bluish entity during the time and stars astatine night. An oculus usually develops erstwhile the storm's maximum sustained upwind speeds are supra 74 mph.

Eye wall: This is the astir unsafe portion of the storm. It's a ringing of gangly thunderstorms that nutrient the strongest winds and dense rains.

Hurricane-force winds: Hurricane-force winds weaken the farther you determination distant from the eye. In conscionable a fewer miles you tin driblet a full category.

Tropical storm-force winds: Tropical storm-force winds usually are felt passim a ample swath of a hurricane. But they don’t agelong arsenic acold arsenic the outer borderline of the clouds. These winds are inactive unsafe but are not the worst of the storm.

Outer bands: These are bands that spiral retired of the tempest similar a pinwheel with h2o connected it. These lines of storms are wherever tornadoes typically form. It is besides wherever flooding tin occur. The bands tin make a “training” effect wherever it conscionable continues to rainfall successful the aforesaid place, similar we saw successful Houston for days aft Harvey.

Read much astir the highest of hurricane play and upwind speeds here:

Waves clang connected the shoreline on the Jensen Beach Causeway, connected November 9, successful Jensen Beach, Fla. (Rebecca Blackwell/AP)

With Hurricane Nicole expected to marque landfall on Florida's eastbound seashore Thursday morning, beardown winds are already being reported successful the state.

A adjacent hurricane-force upwind gust of 73 mph was reported astatine 12:55 a.m. astatine Playalinda Beach connected the eastbound coast, conscionable northbound of Cape Canaveral.

Port Canaveral recorded a upwind gust of 67 mph, Sebastian Inlet reported a 66 mph gust and Melbourne recorded a 58 mph gust precocious Wednesday night.

Nicole has measured maximum sustained winds of 75 mph, with higher gusts. Hurricane-force winds are expected to widen outward up to 25 miles from the center, according to the National Hurricane Center.

(CNN Weather)

After wreaking havoc successful northwestern Bahamas Wednesday, Hurricane Nicole is poised to marque landfall on the eastbound seashore of Florida successful the adjacent mates of hours, according to an update from the National Hurricane Center.

The tempest is astir 30 miles east-southeast of Fort Pierce Beach, Florida, moving west-northwest astatine 14 mph, the halfway said aboriginal Thursday. Nicole has maximum sustained winds of 75 mph.

Little alteration successful spot is expected until Nicole makes landfall, according to the Hurricane Center.

The tempest is expected to weaken arsenic it moves crossed Florida into the southeastern US, and is "likely to go a post-tropical cyclone by Friday afternoon," the halfway said.

NHC notes that Nicole volition bring “strong winds, unsafe tempest surge and dense rains and that ample aggravated bands widen rather acold from the center."

The Hurricane Center has warned that threats from the ample tempest agelong beyond its forecast cone.

Strong winds are already being reported successful the state, with Port Canaveral signaling a upwind gust of 67 mph, a 66 mph gust astatine Sebastian Inlet and Melbourne signaling a 58 mph gust precocious Wednesday night.

Wind and tempest surge from the tempest has already led officials to deem buildings unsafe oregon at the hazard of collapse. Universities and amusement parks person besides closed operations successful mentation for Nicole's landfall. Airlines canceled thousands of flights to hole arsenic well.

Tornadoes are besides imaginable arsenic Nicole approaches.

Because an country of convection wrong the outer bands of Nicole’s northwest broadside is increasing, there’s an accrued menace for isolated, little tornadoes forming, according to the Storm Prediction Center.

To hole for Nicole, Gov. Ron DeSantis expanded his authorities of exigency -- primitively for 34 counties -- to see 11 further counties.

Authorities are urging individuals to person aggregate ways to person upwind warnings arsenic they spell to furniture arsenic the menace of tornadoes increases overnight.

Intense rain-bands volition determination crossed the eastbound seashore of Florida overnight arsenic Hurricane Nicole moves onshore. Embedded wrong these bands of rainfall whitethorn beryllium speedy forming tornadoes, often lasting lone a fewer minutes but beardown capable to make harm and endanger lives.

By Thursday morning, the menace extends inland towards the I-301 corridor arsenic the strategy slides crossed the Florida Peninsula.

Tropical induced tornadoes are communal with landfalling hurricanes arsenic the rain-bands interact with the contiguous coastline. The right, beforehand quadrant of the tropical strategy is wherever the astir apt tornado enactment occurs.

(CNN Weather)

As Hurricane Nicole inches person to Florida’s eastbound coast, authorities successful Fort Lauderdale accidental the tempest surge is flooding its obstruction island, making galore roadways impassable.  

“The obstruction land continues to flood owed to the tempest surge from the southbound extremity to the northbound extremity of the city. Traffic operations are impacted and galore roadways are impassable," Fort Lauderdale Police said Wednesday evening on Twitter.

The National Hurricane halfway has issued several storm surge watches and warnings as Nicole churned toward the state, pushing rising oversea h2o inland from the coastline.

A precocious tide was expected astir 9 p.m. ET, and flooding has already occurred crossed the area, metropolis of Fort Lauderdale officials said.