There is a tropical storm warning for the Carolinas as the National Hurricane Center is
now calling it a potential cyclone so that it could issue a Tropical Storm Warning for the beaches of North Carolina and South Carolina. The potential Tropical Cyclone Eight formed off the Southeast US Coast on Sunday and is expected to become Tropical Storm Helene early this week.
AccuWeather warned that the weather front off the Carolinas would become a tropical
storm in the coming days, causing gusts of up to 80 mph and power outages. It also stated that landfall was most likely to happen late Monday around the North Carolina coast close to the South Carolina border.
The system originally known as Invest 95L, is now being referred to as a likely tropical
cyclone by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in order to allow it to send out tropical storm warnings along the Southeast coast. The coasts of North and South Carolina were under a Tropical Storm Warning. Over the following few days, the NHC warned that areas of the Southeast and mid-Atlantic coasts could experience poor beach conditions, strong winds, and heavy rain with a possibility for flash floods and coastal flooding due to the potential Tropical Cyclone Eight. Within the next day, it might develop into a tropical storm.
A wide range of 2 to 5 inches of rainfall is predicted by computer forecast models, with
slightly greater amounts, mostly east of Interstate 95. This is made up of the seaside towns of Wilmington and Morehead City in North Carolina, as well as Myrtle Beach in South Carolina. Northeastern South Carolina, eastern North Carolina, and southeast Virginia have been marked by NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center as possibly experiencing flooding on Monday. Inland towns like Raleigh, Charlotte, and maybe Richmond, Virginia, can still anticipate anything from one to three inches of rain.
There is a greater risk of rip currents and coastal erosion as a result of the possible
tropical storm formation. Rough seas are a common thing along the coastline near the Outer Banks of North Carolina and Southeast Virginia, as shown by increases generated by Hurricane Ernesto, which was almost 1,000 miles away. There is several images of the line in which the cyclone is going through the coast of the Carolinas. It shows its path through several cities going inland off the coast.
I talked to two students who are here at SUNY Cortland to see what their thoughts were about the tropical cyclones and they knew about them. Cole, has family in North Carolina that are preparing for these storms to roll through. They are worried most about the potential cyclone warning as that will potentially do more damage than a tropical storm, even though tropical storms can do mass amounts of damage too. The other student that I interviewed, Ryan, knew about the tropical storm leading towards the coast of the Carolinas but didn’t know that it potentially be a cyclone 8 formation.