Nicole was nonetheless near changing into a hurricane, late Wednesday afternoon, however there’s no change within the forecast the storm will attain that class earlier than making landfall, probably in a single day.
At 4 p.m., Nicole was about 135 miles east of West Palm Seaside, and the storm was shifting to the west at 13 mph, with most sustained winds at 70 mph.
That’s a sooner ahead pace than the ten mph Tuesday afternoon and night, and tropical storm-force winds prolong out 485 miles from the middle, particularly to the north of the middle.
