The latest forecast for Colin called for the center of the storm to make landfall near the Big Bend area of Florida sometime Monday evening, and move across the Florida peninsula into Georgia and then move along or just off the SC coast before heading out to sea. An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft reported that Colin was maintaining winds of 50 miles per hour with higher gusts.
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The Georgia coast and the north Florida Atlantic coast were placed under a tropical storm watch Sunday evening.
Tropical Storm Warnings have indeed been extended into North Carolina as forecast here at Firsthand earlier today.
The weather officials have warned the swimmers, surfers and boaters to avoid getting in the water as risky rip currents are expected to come along Florida’s eastern and western shores.
Tropical Storm Colin was on its way to strike Florida on Monday and threatening rains forecasters said could cause some serious flooding along much of the state’s Gulf coast.
Flood advisories are in place in numerous affected areas, particularly more inland in North Carolina.
Tropical Storm Colin churned toward Florida’s northern Gulf coast Monday where officials issued a state of emergency under threat from high winds, possible tornadoes and copious rain. But Pearson says no major flooding has been reported in the county, which includes pencil-thin swaths of land from Kitty Hawk down to Hatteras Island.
This story will be updated as the National Hurricane Center issues more advisories.
Tongue thoroughly in cheek, Miller described the storm’s movement away from SC “at breakneck speed, moving northeast at 35 miles per hour!”
“If you don’t need to go out”, Scott said, “don’t go out”.
Colin is expected to have little to no impact in the Northeast since it will remain far enough out to sea, AccuWeather said. “Because I have a feeling that we’re going to have a season similar to 2005”, he added.
No significant problems were reported in South Carolina, with a handful of roads closed in Charleston and near the Georgia-South Carolina state line.
About 7,600 people are without power in the Tampa Bay area due to Tropical Storm Colin.
The Skyway Bridge was closed to all vehicles Monday as winds gusted up to 52 miles per hour, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
The last time a C-named storm developed in the first month of hurricane season was 2012 with Hurricane Chris.
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South Florida will likely continue to get rain fed by the same moist flow from the western Caribbean that helped fuel Colin, the third storm of a season that started just a week ago.
