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Forecast data suggests up to 6 inches of rain through the end of the week for North Carolina.

Tropical storm Debby nearing hurricane strength; will bring heavy rain, flooding to NC this week

I'm meteorologist Chris Michaels with a tropical update. This as of the 11 a.m. advisory from the National Hurricane Center. You see a wide variety of watches and warnings. The blue, the tropical storm warning up and down the Gulf coast of Florida. They've got hurricane warnings as well as this is poised to be a category one hurricane at landfall Monday morning. You also see the tropical storm watch in the yellow. It's starting to creep up the coast of South Carolina, nothing for the coast of North Carolina just yet. We'll let you know if that changes. Here's the latest path again. This is the 11 a.m. advisory. The next PA comes out at 5 p.m. and new, we see it being a tropical depression over North Carolina Friday morning. Is that centered over western North Carolina? Is it centered off the coast? That's what that cone is showing us. And there's uncertainty because there's really nothing pushing this thing or pulling this thing as we get into the upcoming week. It's just kind of on its own meander meandering a little bit, especially Tuesday through at least Friday. So Monday, it's a fairly low impact weather day. For us, especially inland, you start to see some coastal rain bands. Tuesday, we start to see some showers and thunderstorms moving inland. But Wednesday through Friday is when we see more rain and the potential for some flooding. So this is just kind of a broad overview of some of the impacts that we may see from Debbie overall. The highest rain totals, the highest flood potential is going to be closer to the coast. Uh Latest forecast data showing anywhere from 3 to 6 or even as high as 4 to 8 inches of rain in the triangle and sand hills spread out over seven days, maybe some gusty wind on Friday, we'll keep tabs on that. But the farther north and west you go, the lesser the impacts become that is a generalization. We'll get into the more fine tuning in the details as we go throughout the week and we see where exactly Debbie is going to stall and meander behind Debbie, there is a system the National Hurricane Center is watching. We're just gonna broad brush this for right now because it hasn't even come close to forming just yet. It has a 20% chance of doing so throughout the Caribbean Sea over the next seven days. A sign of how busy things are about to get over the next couple of months in the tropics.

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