How Will Tropical Storm Debby Affect The Northeast?

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On "Forbes Newsroom," AccuWeather Senior Director Dan DePodwin spoke about the possible impact on the Northeast by Tropical Storm Debby.

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00:00I know you mentioned that the Northeast will see some remnants of Debbie.

00:04What does that look like?

00:05Is that anything like the historic nature that Georgia and South Carolina are going

00:09to see?

00:10So at this time here on Monday, we don't expect it to be a historic storm for the Northeast,

00:14but there will be impacts expected probably Saturday or maybe Friday into Saturday across

00:19the mid-Atlantic and Northeast.

00:20Debbie, as we mentioned, will be the slow mover, but by Friday it should start to gain

00:24some forward speed and move off to the Northeast.

00:27It may go back offshore, but it looks like it will interact with a different storm coming

00:31through the Great Lakes, and that can spread a pretty impressive swath of rain across parts

00:35of the mid-Atlantic.

00:36Northeast, that includes places like Pennsylvania, Maryland, the Delmarva, New York City, up

00:41into southern New England.

00:43We could be talking about a few, maybe two, three, four inches of rain, which could be

00:47enough to cause pockets of flooding as well.

00:49Coastal areas might deal with some 40 to 50 mile an hour wind gusts, sort of like a nor'easter

00:53in many cases.

00:54So we're going to have to keep a close eye on that this week here, and we'll be doing

00:57that at AccuWeather throughout the week, keeping a close eye, not just on the historic flooding

01:00and the expected in the Carolinas, but the eventual impact to the Northeast.

01:04Dan, I want to look at the future just a little bit.

01:06Is there anything else on your radar when it comes to this hurricane season?

01:11So as AccuWeather has been predicting really since March, we expect this to be a very supercharged

01:16hurricane season with 20 or more named storms, and we've already obviously seen four.

01:23We are still very early on in the hurricane season.

01:26We are just entering August.

01:27The peak of the season is during the middle of September.

01:30So we have a long way to go here, and we do see plenty of more tropical systems on the

01:34horizon.

01:35There's a tropical wave that's moving into the Caribbean this week, and it could develop

01:39as it approaches the Western Caribbean and maybe moves into the Gulf of Mexico either

01:43late this week or this coming weekend.

01:45So we'll have to keep an eye on that.

01:46It looks like there's another tropical wave behind it.

01:48So we have certainly reached the point of the season now, after a bit of a three or

01:51four-week lull in most of July, where we have plenty to talk about here over the coming

01:55weeks.

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