Sunday morning. Latest winds: 45mph.
The Debby appears to be getting better organized and now there’s a real possibility for Rapid Intensification before making landfall around the FL Big Bend area…
Cat 1 seems certain but Cat 2 (96-110mph) are now a possibility!
7:30am: TS Debby Winds 50mph
Tropical Storm Watch and Storm Surge Watch issued for parts of coastal Georgia.
10-20 inches of rain forecast for parts of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina
An extreme rainfall event is set to unfold for parts of the Carolinas this week, thanks to a stalled front and a slow-moving/meandering tropical storm Debby. Parts of the low country could see up to 20-30" of rainfall. Up to 10" is now possible even into the Piedmont (including the Charlotte area).
@Aquarius Your new house isn’t in a flood zone is it?
As of 11am: Debby became a Cat 1 Hurricane.
As of 2am: She has winds at 80mph and did shift east a bit in it’s northerly track.
Looking to make landfall in a few hours (by sunrise) in the eastern side of the FL Big Bend, then will be over land until Monday evening/Tuesday morning before drifting back over water and meandering off the GA\SC coast.
The future track still remains unchanged (meandering off the southeast coast, then drifting north into eastern SC).
Gonna be a messy day in northern FL & southeast GA today!
No rain so far in my locale of the Charlotte area, but it looks like the outer fringes of Debby will start to drop some rain here later this morning. Winds are a bit breezy out of the east at 10-15mph currently…
As for the latest on Debby:
The center will move across southeastern Georgia tonight, and then off the Georgia coast Tuesday and Wednesday, and approach the South Carolina coast on Thursday.
Debby is moving toward the northeast near 7 mph, A turn toward
the east is expected on Tuesday, followed by a turn to the north at a slow forward speed on Wednesday.
Debby is expected to produce potentially historic rainfall totals of 10 to 20 inches, with maximum amounts of 30 inches, bringing areas of catastrophic flooding across portions of eastern Georgia, the coastal plain of South Carolina, and southeast North Carolina through Wednesday.
Across portions of central and northeast North Carolina, 6 to 12 inches of rainfall, with local amounts to 18 inches, are expected through Saturday morning.
This rainfall will likely result in areas of considerable flash and urban flooding, with significant river flooding expected.
Huh. Just got a tornado warning for the area. I’m right next to a giant window though, and the sky doesn’t look green, so I’m probably fine.
Edit: Now there’s something weird. The warning is for the northeastern part of this county, and the northwestern part of the county to the west of here. That doesn’t quite add up.
Edit2: Oh look, another one. This one ends a half hour later. It’s a warning, not a watch, so how do they decide when it ends?