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":2,"featured_media":184193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[62039,192,108482,47452,108481,45155,108483,79,5614,18839],"class_list":["post-184192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-bahamas","tag-environment","tag-flooding-rain","tag-hurricane","tag-imelda","tag-midlands","tag-rainfall-amounts","tag-science","tag-south-carolina","tag-tropical-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}