The National Hurricane Center is flagging a strong tropical wave in their Tropical Weather Outlook (link) today. It’s about halfway across the Atlantic this morning, and in a couple of days will be in an area favorable for development, roughly the same area Debby developed …
There are no “magic words” in the outlook, and it’s a ways off, so nothing to worry about at this point – if this develops in to a threat it will be a couple of days before it can be realistically assessed. Of course that doesn’t stop the usual suspects from pontificating and speculating. The only thing we know as of this morning is that the major global models spin things up in 4-5 days. The main US model (GFS) and the European Centre main models show nearly identical scenarios, a tropical storm in the southern Bahamas next Friday …
TLDR: those in the northern Caribbean should probably check back Sunday, for the Bahamas and US enjoy your weekend and don’t worry about it until Monday.
Locally, the “second wave” of Debby’s impacts are being felt in Georgia and South Carolina as all that rain deposited inland is trying to return to the ocean. There are flood warnings and in some cases evacuations of low lying areas near rivers and streams.
For the latest on the flooding USGS and NOAA have a site were you can monitor conditions.
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