Some areas from northeast Florida to SC could receive 3 to 6 inches of rainfall with isolated maximum amounts of 10 inches possible. She’s expected to dump less than an inch of rain across coastal parts of northeastern SC and southeast North Carolina through Friday.
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There were no coastal warnings or watches posted because of the storm.
Street flooding that came about the time of high tide late Wednesday caused a handful of downtown streets in Charleston to be closed. All the streets had reopened by rush hour Thursday morning.
Julia is “expected to meander off the coast of Georgia and SC for the next few days”, forecasters wrote in the 11 a.m. Thursday Tropical Weather Outlook report.
Julia, the 10th named storm of the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season, was moving northeast at 2 miles per hour just off the USA coast, as little change TO its strength was expected during next two days, it said. An elevated risk of rip currents will remain, mainly for the SC beaches closer to the center of the storm.
Julia re-strengthened into a tropical storm Thursday after earlier weakening to a tropical depression, but forecasters said it would gradually lose steam again while meandering off the coast of the Carolinas. That storm was located about 125 miles east-southeast of Charleston, South Carolina, as of Thursday at 11 a.m.
The storm, which did not deliver the torrential downpours and widespread flooding that was feared earlier in the week, was expected to drift off the coast for the next couple of days, the National Hurricane Center said.
Meanwhile, a new tropical depression has formed far out over the Atlantic and is moving west. It’s centered about 365 miles (587 kilometers) west-northwest of the Cabo Verde Islands.
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On its present projected path, Ian is expected to continue moving into the north Atlantic Ocean, posing no threat to the continental United States.
