Tropical weather update via T3 golf
Tropical Storm Debby continued to ravage the Southeast with heavy rainfall as it made its second landfall Thursday.
Debby came ashore about 2 a.m. Thursday near Bulls Bay, South Carolina, with winds of 50 mph. The storm was tracking northward at 10 mph with winds of 40 mph.
The storm made landfall Monday on the west coast of Florida near Steinhatchee as a Category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 80 mph and moved out to sea again Tuesday east of Charleston at 5 mph with winds of 65 mph before coming ashore again Thursday.
Debby has been blamed for at least seven deaths so far, spawned a tornado that heavily damaged a school in central North Carolina. The storm has left rainfall totals of a foot or more and flooding throughout parts of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, but is projected to continue to weaken as it stays over land throughout the week from North Carolina to Maine and eventually into Canada.
Debby's tracking speed will continue to increase over land as it moves across North Carolina and Virginia and bears down on Washington, D.C., by Friday morning. The storm is predicted to be over northern Maine and quickly will be out of the picture in the U.S. by Saturday morning. Rainfall predictions range from 1 to 8 inches along Debby's projected path.
The chance of flash flooding remains a concern along Debby's path, with the greatest threat in the central parts of North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania and New York.
This information is provided by meteorologists Garrett Bastardi and Herb Stevens of T3 Golf. Stevens is a former TV meteorologist and one of the original on-air personalities when The Weather Channel debuted in 1982. He has been providing weather reports to the skiing and golf turf industries for more than 20 years with Grass Roots Weather. In 2021, Stevens and Bastardi launched T3 Golf which provides golf course superintendents with short-term forecasts at a local level.
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