CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – As a developing system in the Atlantic is expected to affect Lowcountry weather early next week, leaders are taking action to prepare for it.
As of Friday afternoon, the system, designated as Invest 94L by the National Hurricane Center, appeared to be forming near eastern Cuba and the southeastern Bahamas. The system was producing a large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms and gusty winds.
It is expected to become a tropical depression during the next day or so while it moves north across the central and western Bahamas toward the southeast U.S. coast. Forecasters expect it to become a tropical storm, taking the name Imelda, and say it could become a weak Category 1 hurricane before making landfall…