Hurricane Nicole

Braylin Bentley

Published: November 28, 2022

Boom! Slash! Crash! This is the sound Hurricane Nicole sounded like when it came rushing into Florida! Now it’s just gotten worse over time when it’s been ruining, and damaging people’s lives and homes. This is now the 9th or 10th hurricane to hit Florida this year in 2022.

Hurricane Nicole arrived at about 3 a.m on Thursday. It marked the first time a hurricane hit the Treasure Coast! The hurricane went up to 75 mph and struck 43 days after hurricane Ian struck. Hurricane Nicole came ashore on North Hutchinson Island, it will be remembered as the rare November hurricane that hit the east coast of florida. Nicole came in hot and surprised us and experts this late in hurricane season. It begins June 1st and ends November 30th hopefully, let’s just hope that water temperatures cool down to help prevent hurricanes from forming in Florida or anywhere else.

Apparently according to the record period, Nicole is officially the third hurricane to strike Florida in November! Since Ian and Nicole were only 43 days apart, the latter was a weaker but fast-moving storm compared to Southwest Florida. With Nicole, the core winds were very tropical, but the larger wind field was “a hybrid tropical and almost winter.” When you get a hurricane, you don’t really get good systems that can intensify really quickly.” Cangiolosi said. “And maybe importantly, Nicole had a different structure than Ian, it was much larger and bigger. Early on though, we called it subtropical and that it had a hybrid characteristic, an unusual characteristic than others.”

For about two days, Nicole took out the power to over 53,000 Florida power and most Florida Light Companies. Many customers in the tri-county regions got eroded by the Treasure Coast beaches and pretty damaged roads and some homes with storm surges and isolated flooding! Hurricane Nicole was that bad in the Treasure Coast beaches. “That’s just how hurricanes work, sadly, they get steered around to destroy the state, countries, and cities” Cangiolosi said. “It’s just confusing how ironic the time was, but criss crossing paths, that’s just climatology.”

48 hours just after Hurricane Nicole struck most of Florida, people sent out drones around the area to check the damage it had done to Florida Saturday morning. The lens of the drone showed people sorting through rubble piles and sorting them, while others were analyzing the battered landscapes. In a central Florida coastal county, many homes collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean following Hurricane Nicole last week. More than 310,000 homes and businesses in Florida didn’t have any power at 12.34 p.m on November 10, 2022 as Nicole made its way across Florida. Ahead of Nicole's landfall, officials in Florida are having families and people evacuate some buildings for safety. Some condos were too determined to also be unsound due to the erosion of all the sea walls. The lucky news too, is that Nicole is most likely to be the last huge hurricane threat for the hurricane season!