The odds of Imelda forming and impacting South Carolina by early next week continue to increase.<\/p>\n
It is currently sitting over Hispaniola, which is hindering development at this time.<\/p>\n
By this evening and into tonight, we are expecting this system to work north over the Bahamas, allowing tropical development to take place by this weekend.<\/p>\n
Models overnight and this morning are coming into better agreement on the upper-level low across the southeast pulling in soon-to-be Imelda, and bringing impacts to the Carolinas.<\/p>\n
With that said, what does this mean for us in South Carolina and the Midlands?<\/p>\n
The biggest concern at this point in time is flooding rain. Models are spitting out 4-8 inches of rain across the Midlands.<\/p>\n
However, those totals need to be taken with a grain of salt because the track of Imelda will make or break those numbers.<\/p>\n
As far as other tropical impacts, it is too early to tell who sees what. Winds will depend on how strong the storm is at potential landfall. <\/p>\n
Tornadoes will depend on where it makes landfall. Even rainfall amounts are questionable.<\/p>\n
Anything from a tropical storm to a major hurricane is still on the table at this point.<\/p>\n
That’s why it is important to stay up-to-date with every forecast into the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The odds of Imelda forming and impacting South Carolina by early next week continue to increase. It is…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":257386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[88678,746,135352,5522,134942,40561,29629,159,3036,51940,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-257385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-bahamas","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-flooding-rain","11":"tag-hurricane","12":"tag-imelda","13":"tag-midlands","14":"tag-rainfall-amounts","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-south-carolina","17":"tag-tropical-development","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115273433365624167","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}