Florida: Gov. DeSantis on updates from Tropical Storm Nicole

Florida Gov Ron DeSantis presented an update on the effects of Tropical Storm Nicole as it passed through Florida on Thursday, November 10. DeSantis said that the storm made landfall in the state overnight as a Category 1 hurricane, though it was later reclassified as a tropical storm. The governor said that Nicole was, “not as significant of a storm as Hurricane Ian,” but that it poses a particular threat to areas that were heavily affected by Ian, such as Volusia County. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) forecasted that the “large tropical storm” would “move across the west-central Florida peninsula” and then “emerge over the far northeastern Gulf of Mexico” on Thursday. There was “little change in strength” expected, the NHC said.

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