According to the National Hurricane Center, Nicole, a subtropical storm that formed east of the Bahamas Monday, is projected to become a Hurricane and make landfall in the Eastern Central Florida area later this week.
Nicole which became the 14th storm of the Atlantic season Monday, is currently several hundred miles east of the Bahamas with the forecast of transitioning into a tropical storm within the next day.
According to the UCF Department of Emergency Management, Nicole is expected to become a Category One Hurricane and make landfall at the coast late Wednesday evening and advancing inland during the overnight and into Thursday morning.
Currently there are Tropical Storm watches for Orange County with a Hurricane watch for Brevard, Indian River, St. Lucie and Martin counties at this time.
The National Hurricane Center is projecting potential damaging strong tropical storm force winds with hurricane gusts for the Central Florida area along with rainfall as high as 6 inches and isolated tornado threats as Nicole passes through Florida on Thursday.
With the damage caused by Hurricane Ian last month to the Central Florida area, it looks like students will have to prepare yet again for potential strong winds and flooding from another Hurricane.
There have been no reports of how this will affect scheduled classes for this week, but stay tuned with Knight News as we update this story as it develops.
