The storm was expected to move into southeast Georgia early Tuesday then move along or just off the SC coast before heading out to sea, according to the National Hurricane Center. Hazard Management Cayman Islands warned that 2016 was expected to be an active hurricane season, and so far TS Colin supports that forecast becoming the record-earliest third named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season. Colin’s maximum sustained winds remained at 50 miles per hour. Rainfall amounts could range from 1 to 2 inches in north and south Florida, to as much as 4 or 5 inches in part of central Florida.
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The agency says that sea turtles have a natural nesting strategy that accommodates for natural events such as storms.
Colin approached Florida from the southeast, knocking down power lines and trees in the Tampa Bay area and dumping up to 16 centimeters of rain.
After making its closest brush with Myrtle Beach around 8 a.m., Tuesday and staying 30 miles offshore, Tropical Storm Colin is racing to the Outer Banks.
National Hurricane Center director Dr Rick Knabb noted a tropical storm has formed in the Gulf of Mexico five of the previous six years. It is in effect for the Panhandle, Tampa Bay Area and counties in the center and north-Atlantic coast.
Flood warnings were issued in many parts of the Tampa Bay area and Tuesday’s commute was a hard one with some roads underwater.
“They aren’t doing very well”, she said.
A tropical storm warning was in effect from the Altamaha Sound Georgia to Oregon Inlet in North Carolina on Tuesday morning.
Tropical storm force winds extend out up to 230 miles, mostly to the southeast where the strongest thunderstorms have been located. Some strengthening is expected, but the storm is forecast to lose its tropical cyclone status by Tuesday night.
Tropical Storm Colin was heavy on rain but also knocked out several power systems, maxing out at 50 mile per hour winds at Big Bend and moving into the Atlantic Ocean by morning, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
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“By late Tuesday afternoon and evening the storm is expected to be out to sea, but not without bringing heavy rains to the Carolinas, where 3 to 6” are possible. A continued northeastward motion at a faster forward speed is expected over the next 48 hours.
