Eight is packing maximum sustained winds of 35 miles per hour, and forecasters expect it to turn north on Tuesday, bringing the center of the storm near North Carolina’s Outer Banks.
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Late August is peak hurricane season, when some of the most severe tropical storms hit the southern and eastern coasts of the United States.
TROPICAL DEPRESSION 9: The one we in Alabama are paying attention too as it is the closest, but it is not expected to impact us.
The system will also generate high surf and unsafe rip currents along the coastal Carolinas.
The second system to reach tropical storm strength will take the next name on the 2016 tropical storm and hurricane naming list, which is Ian. Petersburg area of Florida are hauling out sandbags to offer residents amid predictions of heavy rains from a storm system heading to the southeast Gulf of Mexico.
Total rain accumulations are still between 3 and 5 inches in the area through Friday morning, in addition to summer thunderstorms that will pass through, officials said.
In addition to TD 8, the hurricane center was also issuing advisories on TD 9, which was about 340 miles west of Key West, Fla., and Hurricane Gaston, which was deep in the central Atlantic and could affect the Azores in a few days.
Tropical depressions continue to churn in the Atlantic Ocean, bringing with them fears of hurricanes along the coast.
“Numerous showers and gusty squalls” are expected throughout the day with the potential for trailing rain bands to dump several inches in localized areas. A turn toward the north-northwest is expected Tuesday night, followed by a turn toward the north-northeast on Wednesday. Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 40 miles from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 140 miles.
A tropical depression that formed Sunday off the coast of North Carolina appears sluggish and disorganized this morning, and is likely struggling to survive.
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A tropical storm warning has been issued for the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Some strengthening is forecast during the next 48 hours, and TD 9 expected to become a tropical storm later today. Should Nine become a storm, it will be officially known as Tropical Storm Hermine.
