ABC report from this morning “Florida’s largest insurer already requesting 13 percent rate increase.”
The northeast is waterlogged from constant rain, and there is video of soaking rains in New York over last 24 hours, but that is exactly where the remnants of Hurricane Debby are heading later this week. Meanwhile the storm continues its plodding, dawdling path over the Southeast, where it will dump on North Carolina tomorrow.
Michael Lowry in Eye on the Tropics:
Tropical Storm Debby’s hollowed out core – characterized by a wide, dry center over 100 miles across – is drifting eastward off the South Carolina coast this morning. Although the storm is back over water, its broad wind field and haphazard organization will limit any significant strengthening. Debby is expected to maintain 45 to 50 mph maximum winds as it makes a U-turn slowly back toward South Carolina today.
The Carolinas will face another day or two of deluges before Debby quickens its pace northward and exits the southeast on Friday.
Officially since Monday morning, Charleston International Airport picked up almost 10 inches of rain, with over a foot of rain observed in the Lowcountry between Savannah and Charleston, centered on Edisto Beach and Beaufort and Colleton Counties.
Earlier in the week, Debby’s wide arms of torrential rains stretched from the Sarasota-Bradenton area south of Tampa, where totals reached over 17 inches in south-central Manatee County, to almost 13 inches in the Lake City area of north-central Florida 60 miles west of Jacksonville.
Moderate to major river flooding is ongoing or forecast for the remainder of the week for dozens of rivers across the western Florida peninsula and north Florida, southeast Georgia, and the Carolinas.Debby will hang around the Carolinas today and for most of Thursday which means additional rounds of tropical rainbands training over many of the same areas.
The National Weather Service has a high risk of excessive rain – their most severe rainfall outlook – covering the area from just north of Charleston along the coastal plain of South Carolina to the Piedmont of North Carolina, including Raleigh-Durham and Wilmington, where up to a foot or more of additional rain is forecast locally.
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