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

Debby strengthens into category 1 hurricane; will bring heavy rain, flooding to NC this week

All right, here's the latest update in the tropics on tropical storm Debbie. We haven't seen a lot of change in the wind speeds. Currently, with this system that hurricane hunters have been up there, kind of sampling what's going on. Winds are currently at 65 miles an hour. It's almost due west of Tampa. We've seen a ton of issues already. I saw a video in Fort Myers with storm surge kind of creating some floods in Florida. They've seen numerous tornado warnings down there definitely been an impactful system in that regard, movements north at about 12 miles an hour. That's central pressure, which is always a very good indicator of if this storm is strengthening, is it weakening if that pressure continues to go down? That means it would be strengthening and we've seen it slowly ticking, ticking down. So we're going to watch to see if that continues the hurricane center. Here's the latest track from them. They do have this making landfall Monday, probably midday as a category one hurricane and then a big time stall coming off the coast of Georgia, South Carolina. I mean, you see those icons right there. They don't really move much Tuesday, Wednesday, even into Thursday, we're really not seeing much movement and that could lead to some big time. And they're mentioning catastrophic is the term they used flooding potential across, especially South Carolina. We would still be talking some heavy rainfall in North Carolina but not quite as bad as what they're expecting in the South Carolina, Georgia region all the way into Friday though. We're still going to be tracking the system into early next weekend. We talk about that flooding concern. Here's a look for you where the pink is outlined right there. Extreme flooding potential or risk if you will, by the time this storm is all said and done 15 plus inches of rainfall. Charleston Savannah, even up toward Myrtle Beach and where we're looking at still a decent chance there across the North Carolina Coast for some flooding risk into most of this week.

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