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WRAL meteorologists are tracking Tropical Storm Imelda, which formed Sunday afternoon, and its interaction with a hurricane far off our coast.


Tropical Storm Imelda latest: NC may get less rain if Humberto moves system away from coast

Meteorologist Grant scanner here in the Weather Center. As of the 20 p.m. advisory Sunday, we have Tropical Storm Emelda, which is forecast to be pulled away from the coastline due to a stronger Humberto, which will be further to the east, expected to track west of Bermuda, and so that will lessen our impacts for the Carolinas. Still some periods of light to moderate rain into Monday and Tuesday, but overall that flooding risk has decreased, and overall the inland impacts have decreased. Still could see some rough surf and a high risk for rip current. At the coastline, but here's a 2 p.m. advisory, 40 mile per hour winds, so a little bit stronger than it was in the into yesterday and this morning. You can see it going to the north, then by Tuesday morning, making that turn to the east. A little bit of uncertainty beyond that point of the exact track, but still staying offshore, and uh mainly just bringing some tropical moisture, which could bring periods of light to moderate rain mainly for much of our area into the first half of the coming week. Much, much of the rain dies down by Wednesday morning. Here's Humberto. As the 11 a.m. advisory, so 150 mile per hour winds it will attract to the northwest, then move to the north, then to the northeast, moving west of Bermuda, but still staying far enough offshore where direct impacts are not expected for the US East Coast, but we could still see some rough surf and a high risk for currences due to that system offshore. And I talked about the decreasing effects from Emelda, still gonna have some periods of light to moderate rain, but overall, those rainfall Have really dropped off. Now, for Raleigh down through Fayetteville, a 0.5 inch through 3/4 of an inch, all the way through the end of the week. So a big drop in those rainfall totals from, let's say, Thursday and Friday of last week, and that's because of this newest change in forecast model guidance, and we're we always mention we'd see some changes in the forecast model guidance, and also with a track of this system, because it still had to get better organized. Now that it's more organized, now Tropical storm, we're seeing now the majority of the impacts will be heavy rainfall, mainly towards the South Carolina coastline, but still some heavy rain as possible down towards the coastline, towards Wilmington, Carolina Beach, uh, Wrightsville Beach, uh, inland spots though, lessening impact. So we'll continue to monitor these trends with these forecast models, and of course, the forecast cone that we get from the National Hurricane Center and what impacts we get to see inland, all the latest on WREL and on WREL.com.

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