We now have Potential Tropical Cyclone 9 (PTC 9), which is a fancy way of saying a tropical disturbance that is not fully organized.<\/p>\n
PTC 9 is forecast to push over the Bahamas this weekend, before making its way toward the South Carolina coastline by early next week.<\/p>\n
It is currently sitting just north of Cuba, and is starting to get its act together as it works back into the hot Caribbean waters.<\/p>\n
We are expecting PTC 9 to officially become Tropical Storm Imelda by this weekend. <\/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":"We now have Potential Tropical Cyclone 9 (PTC 9), which is a fancy way of saying a tropical…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":257533,"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-257532","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\/115273736303127000","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257532","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=257532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}