Debby remains this Tuesday, August 6 as tropical storm and threatens communities in the area with strong winds, rain, flooding and storm surge. Georgia and South Carolina as it passes through the southeastern United States, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported.
This phenomenon, the second of the Atlantic season to make landfall in the United States, maintains maximum sustained winds of 75 kilometers per hour with stronger gusts, according to the NHC bulletin at 8:00 a.m.
The now tropical storm Debby It is the second hurricane of the season in the Atlantic to make landfall in the United States. After Beryl, which hit Texas last July, where it left at least 23 dead and blackouts in several parts of the state for days and in the midst of an extreme heat wave.
So far this hurricane season in the Atlantic basin, which began on June 1, four tropical storms have formed, Alberto, Beryl, Chris and Debby.
This Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be one of the most active and intense in decades, with up to 25 storms and 13 hurricanes forming.
Tropical Storm Debby: What will be its path in the US?
On Tuesday, the center of Tropical Storm Debby, which swept across western Florida and caused the deaths of at least four people on Monday, was moving inland. over southeastern Georgia.
It was 35 kilometers southwest of Savannah, Georgia, and about 165 kilometers southwest of Charleston (South Carolina).
Debbywhich is moving northeast near 9 kilometers per hour, will exit the sea again today, where it is expected to strengthen, and then make landfall again in South Carolina this Thursday.
A slower eastward and then northward motion is expected through Thursday night.
Forecasters are forecasting some strengthening on Wednesday and Thursday as Debby moves offshore.
On the forecast track, the center of Debby is expected to move later today offshore the coast of Georgia, move into early Thursday morning and then inland over South Carolina later that day.
Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 205 miles (335 km) from the center.
A weather station in Folly Beach, South Carolina, recently reported sustained winds of 42 mph with higher gusts.
