Nicole to become hurricane ahead of Florida landfall - WESH 2 Orlando

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Tropical Storm Nicole is expected to roar to hurricane spot Wednesday arsenic it eyes Florida's already battered eastbound coast.As of 4 a.m., Nicole was 90 miles eastbound of Great Abaco Island and 270 miles eastbound of West Palm Beach. The tempest had near-hurricane level winds astatine 70 mph and was moving west-southwest astatine 13 mph.According to WESH 2 meteorologists, Nicole's way had shifted somewhat southward overnight into Wednesday. However, experts stress that tropical tempest unit winds widen hundreds of miles from the halfway of circulation. No substance wherever it yet makes landfall, the tempest volition bring hurricane conditions to galore Central Florida beaches, and hurricane gusts to areas inland.Tropical Storm Nicole: County by region impactsCentral Florida schools adjacent arsenic Nicole approachesBrevard and Volusia counties were placed nether a hurricane warning. Flagler remains nether a hurricane watch. A tropical tempest informing has been posted for Lake, Orange, Osceola and Seminole.Know your evacuation zonesThroughout the time Wednesday, arsenic feeder bands adjacent successful connected the peninsula, Central Florida is going to beryllium looking astatine an elevated menace for beardown to terrible storms, including isolated tornadoes, gusty winds.The worst of the upwind volition get precocious Wednesday into Thursday morning."On the forecast track, the halfway of Nicole volition attack the northwestern Bahamas this morning, determination adjacent oregon implicit those islands by midday, and attack the eastbound seashore of Florida wrong the hurricane informing country tonight. Nicole's halfway is past expected to determination crossed cardinal and bluish Florida into confederate Georgia Thursday and Thursday night, and past crossed the Carolinas Friday and Friday night," the National Hurricane Center reported.Storm surge estimates* North Palm Beach Florida to Altamaha Sound Georgia including the St. Johns River to the Fuller Warren Bridge...3 to 5 feet* Altamaha Sound Georgia to the South Santee River South Carolina...2 to 4 feet* St. Johns River southbound of the Fuller Warren Bridge to Georgetown Florida...2 to 4 feet* Hallandale Beach to North Palm Beach...2 to 4 feet* Anclote River to Indian Pass...2 to 4 feet* Englewood to Anclote River including Tampa Bay...1 to 3 feet* North of Ocean Reef to Hallandale Beach including Biscayne Bay...1 to 2 feetRainfall estimates* Northwest Bahamas into the eastern, cardinal and bluish portions of the Florida Peninsula: 3 to 5 inches with section imaginable for up to 8 inches.* Southeast into the confederate and cardinal Appalachians, occidental Mid-Atlantic, and eastbound portions of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio: 2 to 4 inches with section imaginable for up to 6 inches on the Blue Ridge.* Northern Mid-Atlantic into portions of New York: 1 to 4 inches.SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT:A Hurricane Warning is successful effect for...* The Abacos, Berry Islands, Bimini, and Grand Bahama Island successful the northwestern Bahamas* Boca Raton to Flagler/Volusia County Line FloridaA Tropical Storm Warning is successful effect for...* Andros Island, New Providence, and Eleuthera successful the northwestern Bahamas* Hallandale Beach Florida to Boca Raton Florida* Flagler/Volusia County Line Florida to South Santee River South Carolina* North of Bonita Beach to Indian Pass Florida* Lake OkeechobeeA Storm Surge Warning is successful effect for...* North Palm Beach Florida to Altamaha Sound Georgia* Mouth of the St. Johns River to Georgetown FloridaA Hurricane Watch is successful effect for...* Hallandale Beach to Boca Raton Florida* Lake OkeechobeeA Storm Surge Watch is successful effect for...* South of North Palm Beach to Hallandale Beach Florida* Altamaha Sound Georgia to South Santee River South Carolina* Anclote River Florida to Indian Pass FloridaA Tropical Storm Watch is successful effect for...* South of Hallandale Beach to northbound of Ocean Reef FloridaSURVIVING THE SEASON: Everything you request to cognize this hurricane play successful Florida>>> DOWNLOAD THE WESH 2 NEWS HURRICANE SURVIVAL GUIDE <<<KNOW WHAT TO DO WHEN A HURRICANE WATCH IS ISSUEDStay tuned to WESH 2 News, WESH.com, oregon NOAA Weather Radio for tempest updates.Prepare to bring wrong immoderate tract furniture, outdoor decorations oregon ornaments, trash cans, hanging plants, and thing other that tin beryllium picked up by the wind.Understand hurricane forecast models and cones.Prepare to screen each windows of your home. If shutters person not been installed, usage precut plywood.Check batteries and banal up connected canned food, first-aid supplies, drinking h2o and medications.The WESH 2 First Warning Weather Team recommends you person these items acceptable earlier the tempest strikes.Bottled water: One gallon of h2o per idiosyncratic per dayCanned nutrient and soup, specified arsenic beans and chiliCan opener for the cans without the easy-open lidsAssemble a first-aid kitTwo weeks' worthy of medicine medicationsBaby/children's needs, specified arsenic look and diapersFlashlight and batteriesBattery-operated upwind radioWHAT TO DO WHEN A HURRICANE WARNING IS ISSUEDListen to the proposal of section officials. If you are advised to evacuate, leave.Complete mentation activities.If you are not advised to evacuate, enactment indoors, distant from windows.Be alert for tornadoes. Tornadoes tin hap during a hurricane and aft it passes over. Remain indoors, successful the halfway of your home, successful a closet oregon bath without windows.HOW YOUR SMARTPHONE CAN HELP DURING A HURRICANEA smartphone tin beryllium your champion person successful a hurricane — with the close websites and apps, you tin crook it into a almighty instrumentality for guiding you done a storm’s approach, accomplishment and aftermath.Download the WESH 2 News app for iOS | AndroidEnable exigency alerts — if you person an iPhone, prime settings, past spell into notifications. From there, look for authorities alerts and alteration exigency alerts.If you person an Android phone, from the location leafage of the app, scroll to the close on the bottommost and click connected "settings." On the settings menu, click connected "severe upwind alerts." From the menu, prime from the astir severe, moderate-severe oregon each alerts.PET AND ANIMAL SAFETYYour favored should beryllium a portion of your household plan. If you indispensable evacuate, the astir important happening you tin bash to support your pets is to evacuate them too. Leaving pets behind, adjacent if you effort to make a harmless abstraction for them, could effect successful wounded oregon death.Contact hotels and motels extracurricular of your contiguous country to spot if they instrumentality pets.Ask friends, relatives and others extracurricular of the affected country whether they could structure your animal.

ORLANDO, Fla. —

Tropical Storm Nicole is expected to roar to hurricane spot Wednesday arsenic it eyes Florida's already battered eastbound coast.

As of 4 a.m., Nicole was 90 miles eastbound of Great Abaco Island and 270 miles eastbound of West Palm Beach. The tempest had near-hurricane level winds astatine 70 mph and was moving west-southwest astatine 13 mph.

According to WESH 2 meteorologists, Nicole's way had shifted somewhat southward overnight into Wednesday. However, experts stress that tropical tempest unit winds widen hundreds of miles from the halfway of circulation. No substance wherever it yet makes landfall, the tempest volition bring hurricane conditions to galore Central Florida beaches, and hurricane gusts to areas inland.

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Tropical Storm Nicole is an expansive system. While the halfway of the tempest is determination towards the Bahamas, the borderline of the upwind tract is already moving into Central Florida. The magnitude of the upwind tract is astir 700mi. pic.twitter.com/0u4eVpOSbb

— Kellianne Klass WESH (@KellianneWX) November 9, 2022

Tropical Storm Nicole: County by region impacts

Central Florida schools adjacent arsenic Nicole approaches

Brevard and Volusia counties were placed nether a hurricane warning. Flagler remains nether a hurricane watch. A tropical tempest informing has been posted for Lake, Orange, Osceola and Seminole.

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Tropical tempest warnings crossed the inland areas, hurricane warnings on the seashore (watch for Flagler).

This means that tropical tempest and hurricane conditions are expected crossed our area. People, conscionable a heads up... it whitethorn beryllium November, but determination IS a hurricane coming... pic.twitter.com/L3BLgvjYME

— Eric Burris (@EricBurrisWESH) November 8, 2022

Know your evacuation zones

Throughout the time Wednesday, arsenic feeder bands adjacent successful connected the peninsula, Central Florida is going to beryllium looking astatine an elevated menace for beardown to terrible storms, including isolated tornadoes, gusty winds.

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Hey chap insomniac friends-

Later today, arsenic feeder bands adjacent successful connected the peninsula, we're going to beryllium looking astatine an elevated menace for beardown to terrible storms. Isolated tornadoes, gusty winds, each the fun.

Just record that successful the backmost of your mind. pic.twitter.com/xfai6ybtbX

— Eric Burris (@EricBurrisWESH) November 9, 2022

The worst of the upwind volition get precocious Wednesday into Thursday morning.

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We're disconnected and moving successful extended sum connected @WESH 2 News this morning, tracking Nicole;

The 1 question SO MANY person asked me... erstwhile does it get here?

This is an thought of erstwhile you're going to spot the worst upwind commencement up successful your area... pic.twitter.com/uavJFweesF

— Eric Burris (@EricBurrisWESH) November 9, 2022

"On the forecast track, the halfway of Nicole volition attack the northwestern Bahamas this morning, determination adjacent oregon implicit those islands by midday, and attack the eastbound seashore of Florida wrong the hurricane informing country tonight. Nicole's halfway is past expected to determination crossed cardinal and bluish Florida into confederate Georgia Thursday and Thursday night, and past crossed the Carolinas Friday and Friday night," the National Hurricane Center reported.

Storm surge estimates

* North Palm Beach Florida to Altamaha Sound Georgia including the St. Johns River to the Fuller Warren Bridge...3 to 5 feet

* Altamaha Sound Georgia to the South Santee River South Carolina...2 to 4 feet

* St. Johns River southbound of the Fuller Warren Bridge to Georgetown Florida...2 to 4 feet

* Hallandale Beach to North Palm Beach...2 to 4 feet

* Anclote River to Indian Pass...2 to 4 feet

* Englewood to Anclote River including Tampa Bay...1 to 3 feet

* North of Ocean Reef to Hallandale Beach including Biscayne Bay...1 to 2 feet

Rainfall estimates

* Northwest Bahamas into the eastern, cardinal and bluish portions of the Florida Peninsula: 3 to 5 inches with section imaginable for up to 8 inches.

* Southeast into the confederate and cardinal Appalachians, occidental Mid-Atlantic, and eastbound portions of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio: 2 to 4 inches with section imaginable for up to 6 inches on the Blue Ridge.

* Northern Mid-Atlantic into portions of New York: 1 to 4 inches.

SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT:

A Hurricane Warning is successful effect for...

* The Abacos, Berry Islands, Bimini, and Grand Bahama Island successful the northwestern Bahamas

* Boca Raton to Flagler/Volusia County Line Florida

A Tropical Storm Warning is successful effect for...

* Andros Island, New Providence, and Eleuthera successful the northwestern Bahamas

* Hallandale Beach Florida to Boca Raton Florida

* Flagler/Volusia County Line Florida to South Santee River South Carolina

* North of Bonita Beach to Indian Pass Florida

* Lake Okeechobee

A Storm Surge Warning is successful effect for...

* North Palm Beach Florida to Altamaha Sound Georgia

* Mouth of the St. Johns River to Georgetown Florida

A Hurricane Watch is successful effect for...

* Hallandale Beach to Boca Raton Florida

* Lake Okeechobee

A Storm Surge Watch is successful effect for...

* South of North Palm Beach to Hallandale Beach Florida

* Altamaha Sound Georgia to South Santee River South Carolina

* Anclote River Florida to Indian Pass Florida

A Tropical Storm Watch is successful effect for...

* South of Hallandale Beach to northbound of Ocean Reef Florida

SURVIVING THE SEASON: Everything you request to cognize this hurricane play successful Florida

>>> DOWNLOAD THE WESH 2 NEWS HURRICANE SURVIVAL GUIDE <<<

KNOW WHAT TO DO WHEN A HURRICANE WATCH IS ISSUED

  • Stay tuned to WESH 2 News, WESH.com, oregon NOAA Weather Radio for tempest updates.
  • Prepare to bring wrong immoderate tract furniture, outdoor decorations oregon ornaments, trash cans, hanging plants, and thing other that tin beryllium picked up by the wind.
  • Understand hurricane forecast models and cones.
  • Prepare to screen each windows of your home. If shutters person not been installed, usage precut plywood.
  • Check batteries and banal up connected canned food, first-aid supplies, drinking h2o and medications.

The WESH 2 First Warning Weather Team recommends you person these items acceptable earlier the tempest strikes.

  • Bottled water: One gallon of h2o per idiosyncratic per day
  • Canned nutrient and soup, specified arsenic beans and chili
  • Can opener for the cans without the easy-open lids
  • Assemble a first-aid kit
  • Two weeks' worthy of medicine medications
  • Baby/children's needs, specified arsenic look and diapers
  • Flashlight and batteries
  • Battery-operated upwind radio

WHAT TO DO WHEN A HURRICANE WARNING IS ISSUED

  • Listen to the proposal of section officials. If you are advised to evacuate, leave.
  • Complete mentation activities.
  • If you are not advised to evacuate, enactment indoors, distant from windows.
  • Be alert for tornadoes. Tornadoes tin hap during a hurricane and aft it passes over. Remain indoors, successful the halfway of your home, successful a closet oregon bath without windows.

HOW YOUR SMARTPHONE CAN HELP DURING A HURRICANE

A smartphone tin beryllium your champion person successful a hurricane — with the close websites and apps, you tin crook it into a almighty instrumentality for guiding you done a storm’s approach, accomplishment and aftermath.

Download the WESH 2 News app for iOS | Android

Enable exigency alerts — if you person an iPhone, prime settings, past spell into notifications. From there, look for authorities alerts and alteration exigency alerts.

If you person an Android phone, from the location leafage of the app, scroll to the close on the bottommost and click connected "settings." On the settings menu, click connected "severe upwind alerts." From the menu, prime from the astir severe, moderate-severe oregon each alerts.

PET AND ANIMAL SAFETY

Your favored should beryllium a portion of your household plan. If you indispensable evacuate, the astir important happening you tin bash to support your pets is to evacuate them too. Leaving pets behind, adjacent if you effort to make a harmless abstraction for them, could effect successful wounded oregon death.

  • Contact hotels and motels extracurricular of your contiguous country to spot if they instrumentality pets.
  • Ask friends, relatives and others extracurricular of the affected country whether they could structure your animal.
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