Towering waves, swollen tides and damaging winds will assail Florida’s east coast this week as a corpulent Subtropical Storm Nicole slowly musters power on a collision course with the peninsula.
Nicole’s large size — tropical storm-force winds extended from the storm center’s up to 275 miles — will keep it from organizing quickly, Rhome said.
Still, the east coast is not as vulnerable to storm surge flooding as the Gulf Coast because of the bathymetry — the underwater depth of water — of the coastline. Where the Gulf Coast has more than 100 miles of shallow continental shelf for waves to push up like walking to the shallow end of a pool, the east coast has a steep drop-off, giving water an escape to plunge deeper at the coast rather than pile up and rush inland.
Lake Okeechobee stood at 15.89 feet above sea level Monday. The Army Corps, which oversees releasing water from the lake, said there were no risks to the Herbert Hoover Dike based on Monday's forecast. The storm was about 580 miles east of West Palm Beach on Monday afternoon with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph. It was moving northwest at 9 mph.The differences between a subtropical and tropical cyclone are mostly technical. Tropical cyclones draw all their energy from warm ocean water and humid air near its surface, whereas subtropical cyclones get a mixed meal of warm water and other weather-making mechanisms such as upper-level winds or the collision of warm and cold air.
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