Keep your umbrellas handy, New York. Stormy days are far from over, thanks to Debby.
A day after torrential rains led city officials to issue flash flood warnings for Manhattan and the Bronx and Governor Kathy Hochul to urge those in low-lying areas to have “an evacuation plan ready,” meteorologists are warning that more downpours are expected in the U.S. Northeast through the weekend.
Some areas in upstate New York, northern Maryland, and Vermont could see up to six inches of rain through Saturday morning as the remnants of the slow-moving tropical storm Debby makes its way north, the National Weather Service said in its Wednesday morning advisory.
“This will likely produce considerable flash and urban flooding as well as river flooding,” weather officials said.
5 am EDT Wed, Aug. 7 Key Messages for Tropical Storm #Debby.https://t.co/am3D5hbH6b pic.twitter.com/PprfN2LAsY
— National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) August 7, 2024
Debby, which made landfall along Florida’s Gulf Coast on Monday as a Category 1 hurricane before it was downgraded to a tropical storm, was slowly moving off the coast of South Carolina Wednesday morning after submerging streets and knocking down power knocking out power to more than 300,000 customers across Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.
The deadly storm, which has been linked to the deaths of at least six people, is expected to pick up some strength again before making a second landfall late Wednesday or early Thursday.
waSavannah Fire Advanced Firefighters Ron Strauss, top, and Andrew Stevenson, below, carry food to residents in the Tremont Park neighborhood that where stranded in storm water from Tropical Storm Debby, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, in Savannah, Ga. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)On Tuesday, Gov. Hochul warned New Yorkers of “huge volumes of rain” expected to hit the city by Wednesday morning, and said residents should expect more extreme weather by the end of the week.
“It’s too early to tell the impact that Debby will have on New York, but every model shows that we are in the bullseye, right in the path of this storm coming,” Hochul told reporters adding she had “already activated 100 members of the National Guard, pre-deploying them to be able to assist wherever necessary.
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