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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: Tropical storm to strengthen Monday before making a sharp turn

Meteorologist Grant Skinner here in the Weather Center tracking the tropics. Tropical Storm Imelda, as of the 11 p.m. advisory Sunday, has maximum winds of 40 MPH. It's 125 miles northwest of the central Bahamas. Current forecast still brings us to the north, strengthening over time, becoming a Category 1 hurricane into Tuesday morning, and then taking that sharp turn to the east-northeast thanks to a trough to the northwest, and also Humberto to the east, helping to pull away from the coastline. So overall impacts have been lessening for the Carolinas. Humberto as the 11 p.m. advisory is 430 miles south southwest of Bermuda, 140 mile per hour winds still, still a strong Category 4 hurricane will move to the northwest, then to the north, then to the northeast, staying far offshore, but helping again to pull Imelda away from the coastline. So impacts have been lessening for our area. You can see the forecast rainfall totals have a lessen for the region, about a quarter of an inch to around 3/4 of an inch down. Towards Fayetteville, as high as 1.25 inch in southern portions of our area. Those highest rainfall totals will be towards the coastline, 3 to 4 inches with higher amounts along the South Carolina coastline. The biggest impact will be that rough surf and the high risk for rip currents along much of the US East Coast due to both of those tropical systems. So again, those impacts have been lessening, still some light rain and uh some pockets of moderate rain into our Monday and Tuesday, those rain chances finally drop off as we head to the middle of this week.

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With a 38-year career that began at the former Raleigh Times, Draughon has also contributed to The Scranton Times-Tribune, The Durham News, The Fayetteville Observer and The (N.C.) Insider. His work has earned him several prestigious awards, including the 1993 Fischetti Award for Distinguished Achievement in editorial cartoons and the 1999 Golden Spike Award from the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists. More recently, he received Editor & Publisher Magazine's EPPY Award for best editorial/political cartoons, recognizing his impact in the digital news landscape. 

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