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Debby is moving along the Gulf Coast of Florida with much of North Carolina in its path. The Triangle will see periods of rain late Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and into Friday.

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Latest 11 a.m. advisory from the National Hurricane Center shows Debbie as a tropical storm, it made landfall earlier Monday morning as a category one hurricane. Here's the latest path from the hurricane center and you see the likelihood of this storm going back out into the ocean where it could actually restrengthen a little bit. But for our purposes, if it's a tropical storm, tropical depression almost doesn't matter. It's going to be a big rain maker, especially because of how long it's going to sit over the Carol notice from 8 a.m. Wednesday to 8 a.m. Friday. It barely moves the length of South Carolina by 8 a.m. Saturday. The center of the storm should be to our north. In the meantime, the latest alerts from the hurricane center showing tropical storm warnings all up and down the coast of Georgia and South Carolina. So far, none of those for the coast of North Carolina though. We'll let you know if and when that changes again, rain is going to be the big story for us in the tri looking at 4 to 8 inches of rain over a span of seven days. Fayetteville looking at 6 to 10, Wilmington, 10 to 16 inches of rain. That is for everybody. About 1 to 2 months worth coming in within a week. So often on rain for us mainly starts Tuesday afternoon and last through Friday with a medium to, at times high risk of flash flooding. If the center of the storm passes closer to us or just to our southwest, we would see the chance for gusty winds that are capable of knocking down trees. We'd also see the low threat for brief spin up tornadoes, but that's kind of an, if at the current time, here's the flood threat. You see that being medium to high Tuesday and Wednesday and I could see it getting into the higher category Thursday and Friday. We'll let you know if that changes as well. Here's some things to do Monday to get ahead of the rain, clearing your gutters and drains may be mowing. Of course, having the bare necessities just in case you see any flooding in your neighborhood behind Debbie, there's another storm system that is, uh, got a 30% chance of developing in parts of the Caribbean into the Bay of Camp peachy. We'll take things one storm at a time focusing on Debbie here for the next several days.

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