Nicole sets new record on late-season hurricanes hitting Florida's east coast

NORTH HUTCHINSON ISLAND, Fla. (WPEC) — Hurricane season may run from June 1 through Nov. 30, but storms don't have calendars and the east coast of Florida has been hit by at least one hurricane when the season was winding down in November.

Nicole made landfall on the east coast of Florida as a hurricane, breaking the latest in the record books set by Yankee Hurricane by six days, which hit on Nov. 4, 1935. There have only been three hurricanes to hit Florida since recordkeeping began in 1853.

Hurricane Kate was the only hurricane to make landfall later in the season when it hit Mexico Beach in the Florida Panhandle on Nov. 21, 1985.

Florida's Treasure Coast has gone 18 years without a direct hit from a hurricane. The latest was Hurricane Jeanne on Sept. 25, 2004.

Those who remember know Jeanne was the second part of a one-two punch. Hurricane Frances made landfall in almost the exact location about a month earlier.

Hutchinson Island was not the place to be, that year.