Tropical Storm Julia weakened into a depression and is expected to meander off the coast of Georgia and SC for the next few days, the US National Hurricane Center said on Thursday.
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Julia is expected to linger off the coast of Georgia and SC for the next few days, the hurricane center said.
Julia has weakened to a tropical depression off the coast of Georgia and SC, where it’s expected to meander for the next few day…
Lowcountry school districts are watching the weather to determine whether rainfall from Tropical Storm Julia could require school schedules to be adjusted. Its maximum sustained winds were near 40 miles per hour (64 kph).
A Tropical Storm Warning has been issued from Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, northward to Altamaha Sound, Georgia.
The greatest risk for flash floods will be areas already soaked by Hurricane Hermine earlier in the month, including Charleston and Myrtle Beach in SC, and Wilmington in North Carolina.
The long-distance effect of the circulation surrounding TS Julia is actually bringing drier air and clearer skies to our News 5 neighborhood on the Gulf Coast.
The storm was located near Brunswick, Georgia, at 8 a.m. Wednesday.
While the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season is now in the rearview mirror (Sept. 10), forecasts still favor additional tropical waves emerging from West Africa and potentially developing in the eastern tropical Atlantic, AccuWeather Meteorologist Jordan Root said.
The National Weather Service office in Wilmington has issued a flash flood watch for parts of southeastern North Carolina due to Tropical Storm Julia.
Because of Florida’s long coastline and deep nose into the tropics, more than a dozen tropical depressions or storms have formed near the coast with impacts to Florida.
Forecasters say an isolated tornado can not be ruled out across coastal Georgia and southern SC on Wednesday.
On its present projected path, Ian is expected to continue moving into the north Atlantic Ocean, posing no threat to the continental United States.
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The storm, which did not deliver the widespread flooding and torrential downpours that were feared earlier in the week, was expected to drift off the coast for the next couple of days, the National Hurricane Center said.
