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   November 12, 2022 - Nicole Soaks the Eastern United States   
      
      Nicole   
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      On November 10, 2022, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer   
      (MODIS) on board NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired a true-color image of   
      Tropical Storm Nicole moving northward across the United States. Nicole   
      was a remarkably large storm, with tropical-storm-force winds extending   
      outwards up to 345 miles (555 km) from the center, especially to the   
      northeast. This image shows convective bands and clouds stretching from   
      southern Florida to Maryland and West Virginia. The a cloud-filled   
      center of Nicole sits near Tampa on Florida’s west coast.   
      
      After making landfall near Vero Beach on Florida’s East Coast as a   
      Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (121 km/h),   
      the storm weakened as it crossed the state. According to the National   
      Hurricane Center, near the time this image was acquired, Nicole had   
      become a tropical storm and was carrying maximum sustained winds of 45   
      mph (70 km/h). It was located about 45 miles (70 km) north of Tampa,   
      Florida and about 165 miles (265 km) southeast of Tallahassee, Florida   
      and was moving northwest. By 10:00 p.m. EST on November 10, Nicole had   
      further weakened to become a tropical depression with maximum sustained   
      winds of 35 mph (55 mph). However, it remained a super-soaking storm as   
      it crossed the U.S. Southeast and Mid-Atlantic states.   
      
      According to meteorologist Jeff Masters, writing for Yale Climate   
      Connections, “ Nicole was just the fourth hurricane on record to hit   
      the contiguous U.S. after October, and the second-latest landfalling   
      hurricane on record. Only Hurricane Kate in 1985, which hit the Florida   
      Panhandle as a category 2 storm with 100 mph winds on November 21, made   
      landfall later in the season.”   
      
      Nicole brought a devastating storm surge which caused severe beach   
      erosion to parts of Florida, especially Volusia County where beachfront   
      homes were destroyed as the surge undercut the sand beneath the houses   
      and parts of the roadway crumbled. Coastal flooding occurred as far   
      north as Charleston, South Carolina, including record high water levels   
      of 3.58 feet above high tide measured at Jacksonville, Florida. The   
      storm was also responsible for the deaths of five people in Florida.   
      
      Image Facts   
      Satellite:  Aqua   
      Date Acquired: 11/10/2022   
      Resolutions:  1km (569.2 KB),  500m (1.9 MB),   
      Bands Used: 1,4,3   
      Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC   
      
      
      
   https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2022-11-12   
       
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