Goodbye, Debby . Now it’s time to keep an eye on a tropical wave.
Six days after the storm’s first landfall as a hurricane in Florida, then a second landfall as a tropical storm in South Carolina, the National Hurricane Center released its last advisory on Debby on Aug. 9. The storm brought historic rainfall from Florida to the Carolinas.
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Elsewhere in the tropics, a new tropical wave in the Atlantic is likely to become a tropical depression early next week as it approaches the Lesser Antilles and Caribbean Sea.
If it does become a named storm, it will be Ernesto.
Tropical Storm Debby made its second landfall just before 2 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 8, near Bulls Bay, South Carolina. Sustained winds were 50 mph.
Debby’s first landfall was as a hurricane in Steinhatchee, Florida, around 7 a.m. Monday, Aug. 5. Sustained winds were 80 mph.
Here’s the latest update from the National Hurricane Center in Miami as of 8 a.m. Aug. 10: