The authorities of Florida
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed an executive order on Monday declaring a state of emergency in that group of counties as a precaution. including Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Martin, Saint Lucie, Indian River and others on the east coast, where Nicole should make an impact.
“While this storm doesn’t look set to get much stronger right now, I urge all Floridians to be prepared and listen to announcements from local emergency management officials “, the governor said in a statement.
According to the US National Hurricane Center (NHC), Nicole is approximately 465 miles (750 km) east of the northwestern Bahamas and had maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (75 km / h).
A strip of Florida’s east coast further north of Miami is already under hurricane surveillance and a storm surge surveillance has been issued that reaches the east coast of the neighboring state of Georgia, as well as other minor notices for the same area.
The NHC has suggested that the central Bahamas, the rest of Florida and along the southeastern coast of the United States monitor the progress of Nicole, formed when only 20 days at the end of the hurricane season in the Atlantic basin, which runs from 1 June to 30 November.
The storm is moving northwest at about 9 mph (15 km / h) and is expected to keep that course. with a decrease in travel speed throughout the day, then, starting from Tuesday and until Thursday, turning west or west-southwest.
On the forecast track, Nicole’s center will approach the Northwest Bahamas on Tuesday, pass near or over those islands on Wednesday, possibly with the force of a nearby hurricane and will approach Florida’s east coast Wednesday night.
Nicole will reach Florida, which still continues the recovery work after the destructive passage of Hurricane Ian, that last September 28 reached the southwest coast of this state and where there are officially 130 deaths due to that cyclone.
