As of 5pm Saturday NHC upgraded AL042024 to Tropical Storm Debby – Key Messages regarding Tropical Storm Debby (en Español: Mensajes Claves). Other than the upgrade to a named storm, not too much has changed from this morning’s discussions with respect to the Florida landfall, except the storm is now forecast to become a minimal hurricane. NHC is now also forecasting Debby to have a rather large wind field, with tropical storm force winds extending over much of the Gulf Coast.
As noted earlier, the Big Bend area of Florida needs to prep for a minimal hurricane landfall. Will do a longer post tomorrow on potential impacts in GA/SC. For now, does look like a very wet and blustery (but not dangerous if you exercise some common sense) few days next week. And wet means really wet …
The forecast is still for the storm to stall out on or near the Georgia coast late Monday, and linger until Wednesday. That could drop a yuge amount of rain, 12 to 16 inches in the area from Brunswick to Charleston, and over 10″ as far inland as a line from Waycross-Baxley-Vidalia-Swainsboro-Barnwell-Orangeburg. Still watching the onshore wind and tide situation, a stall could pump a lot of water into the coast that can’t easily escape, leading to shallow coastal flooding.
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Several hours in and yet still no “Debby Does …” derivative titles. Sorta proud of you, actually.
But it does seem Savannah and the flood plain areas of the southside are gonna get dumped on – again.
Everyone is already thinking that but I’ll leave those jokes to the coarse minded …
Yeah, pretty much everything south of Victory Drive was labeled as “impenetrable malarial swamp” on the Civil War era maps. Not much has changed, less malaria, more West Nile I guess.