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":2,"featured_media":185277,"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-185276","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\/185276","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=185276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}