Water temperatures are very warm ahead of the depression and a slight reduction in wind shear may allow it strengthen and become a tropical storm Tuesday.
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“We were just knee-deep, and there were a few times where we had to run out because it kept sucking us in”, she said of the strong ocean currents.
As of 5 p.m. Monday, the first depression was located about 140 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras with top sustained winds of 35 mph and moving to the northwest. The tropical depression is now about 170 miles west-southwest of Key West, Florida, and 125 miles west-northwest of Havana, Cuba. Authorities at some locations in the Tampa-St. A tropical wave is forecast to move off the African coast tonight or tomorrow, and has a medium (50%) chance of developing into a tropical cyclone later this week as it moves west across the Atlantic.
Another tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico could hit northern Florida as a tropical storm later in the week and possibly head toward the Atlantic coast, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said. TD8 was moving toward the northwest near 9 miles per hour (15 kph).
The storm’s center is expected to be near the Outer Banks by late Tuesday, NHC officials said.
The depression is expected to bring with it rainfall of 1 to 3 inches to North Carolina with isolated heavier amounts along the coast.
8 should bring steady rain to the Outer Banks Tuesday into early Wednesday, said Brandon Locklear, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Raleigh.
That north-northeast turn would bring the system across Florida and past the SC coastline, though it is still too early to tell how much of an impact the system will have on the Lowcountry and further inland.
Hurricane Gaston has reformed, gathering strength as it moves northwestward in the Atlantic.
The next two tropical storms will be named Hermine and Ian. A Hurricane Watch was issued for the big island of Hawaii in connection with Hurricane Madeline and its potential impact on the Hawaiian Islands.
The National Hurricane Center says the depression is located about 285 miles per hour (460 kmp) southeast of Cape Hatteras and is moving west at 10 miles per hour.
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Forecasters say Gaston should slow down during the next day or so and turn northward on Monday.
