Nicole makes landfall in Florida as rare Atlantic hurricane in November

Hurricane Nicole made landfall early Thursday morning on Florida's central Atlantic coast, resulting in power outages and heavy, damaging surf.

The storm made landfall south of Vero Beach at about 3 a.m. on North Hutchinson Island, with sustained winds of about  75 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.

However, the storm weekend about an hour later into a tropical storm as it made its way over east-central Florida, according to NBC news.

Roughly 384,000 customers were without electricity in the state as of 10:15 a.m. ET, according to the outage-tracking website poweroutage.us.

Though the storm has weekend, a dangerous storm surge is still expected along parts of the east-central and the northeastern coasts of Florida, along with parts of coastal Georgia