The state of Florida has Tropical Storm Watches and Warnings in effect for parts of the state. Director of the National Hurricane Center, Michael Brennan, joins FOX Weather as Tropical Depression Four makes headlines, as the storm is expected to strengthen into Tropical Storm Debby, perhaps by Saturday evening.
swirling off Cuba on Saturday is on the expected impacts to Florida this weekend, several signs point to the storm having a second life off the southeastern US coast, bringing a renewed threat of flooding rains, damaging wind and dangerous storm surge.later Saturday is forecast to eventually make landfall along the northwestern coast of Florida later Sunday or early Monday as a strong tropical storm or low-end hurricane.
Current projections have the storm eventually drifting along the southeastern US coastline through the middle of the week — if not longer — with possible paths pushing the storm back over the Atlantic. “There’s a possibility that this storm stalls offshore and that’s really the worst case scenario, but that’s a worst case scenario that you need to be prepared for,” Merwin said. “Any time you see a forecast that looks like a big old fishbowl, that means two things: a slowing storm or a stalled out storm. Both just equal a long duration of heavy rain, wind and unfortunately, if you have a storm stalling offshore, that means it could be strengthening and sitting offshore.
The flash flooding risk Monday from locations like Jacksonville up to Myrtle Beach are at Level 3 out of 4 on NOAA’s Flash Flood risk scale. It’s too early to determine storm surge potential or how strong winds will be circling an eye wall, but as Florida takes the headlines this weekend, those along the coasts of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia should start preparing for the possibility of tropical storm or hurricane conditions early next week.
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