Quote: Recon finding 60 to 80kt winds NW of the center but nothing much to the S.
North loaded windfield compliment of the 50 mb gradient between Nicole's 985 mb and 1036 mb high anchored over New England. Almost half of the gradient (22 mb) is concentrated along Florida's east coast from Jupiter north to Fernandina Beach. Catastrophic coastal erosion is underway here in Volusia- millions of dollars of beach infrastructure crumbling into the Atlantic with each high tide.