Hurricane Nicole gave Florida a late-season punch as it officially made landfall early Thursday on North Hutchinson Island just south of Vero Beach.
The storm made an official landfall around 3 a.m.
The hurricane was quickly downgraded to a tropical storm within an hour of landfall. As of 7 a.m. ET, Tropical Storm Nicole had top sustained winds of 60 mph. It is expected to continue dissipating today and is expected to become a tropical depression within the next 24 hours.While it will no longer be a tropical storm, Nicole is expected to lift north and dump heavy rain along the Appalachians and northeast U.S. on Friday.
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