Hurricane Debby

[Blountwolf]

Debby's acting funny. Each time an eye seems to close off, it opens back up again. It looks like there may be two centers rotating around each other, with no particular one "winning." Until that gets resolved, intensity ceiling will remain fairly low.

Some dry air intrusion. Mixing it out, but running out of time.

 

[lake.effect]

And right on cue, it appears to be cutting off a well-defined eye with some 80kt velocities rotating around.

 

[JPWX]

We now have 75mph Hurricane Debby

 

[Clancy]

As others have mentioned, NHC pushed her up to 75 MPH. Debby is now a Category 1.

 

[warneagle]

Should have landfall here very soon. Winds 80 mph, pressure 979 mb.

 

[Mike S]

Looks like it landed near Steinhatchee, Florida

 

[Clancy]

Still expected to remain a TS as she crosses over south Georgia. Winds 75 MPH, center located SE of Perry, FL.

 

[Clancy]

Also, despite being a minimal hurricane, Debby is a big storm.

 

[warneagle]

Tornado-warned supercell moving into the western part of the Orlando metro area, that could be a problem…

 

[Blountwolf]

Rainfall totals starting to pile up - pushing 10 inches in the highest places already.

 

[Blountwolf]

White now represents a foot.

 

[weunice]

As someone who lived though a 20"+ rain even that had tremendous local impact, I have to say the thing that worries me most is how many lives will be impacted who have no idea what is coming -- and who will find out in an election year that no coverage is coming. People are not used to looking at flood stages and understanding what a once in a lifetime river flood looks like --- and how that delay works. The storm will be on the way out, as will the press, when the real damage hits.

 

[Aaron Rider]

Still expected to remain a TS as she crosses over south Georgia. Winds 75 MPH, center located SE of Perry, FL.
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I can't believe how slow she is. It would be funny if it wasn't so dangerous

 

[Aaron Rider]

As someone who lived though a 20"+ rain even that had tremendous local impact, I have to say the thing that worries me most is how many lives will be impacted who have no idea what is coming -- and who will find out in an election year that no coverage is coming. People are not used to looking at flood stages and understanding what a once in a lifetime river flood looks like --- and how that delay works. The storm will be on the way out, as will the press, when the real damage hits.

Praying no one gets anything remotely like what central Virginia got from Camille years ago

 

[Clancy]

The elusive street fish in St. Petersburg.

 

[jiharris0220]

This event hardly started and already there’s fatalities. Just like what I said about every storm this season looking pretty, unfortunately the same can be said about deaths. Hoping this isn’t a theme for the rest of the season.

At least 4 dead as Debby weakens to tropical storm while flooding rain, storm surge continue to lash Florida

At least four deaths have been attributed to Hurricane Debby, which made landfall along Florida's Big Bend early Monday morning. The now-tropical storm continues to blast the state as it moves inland with flooding rain, damaging winds and a life-threatening storm surge.

www.foxweather.com

 

[weunice]

Flooding can be a sneaky killer --- with our big flood back in 2016 the storm didn't even reach tropical depression status yet 13 people died. Almost all flash flooding and river flooding deaths.

 

[Clancy]

Pretty stinky flooding situation for northern FL and southern GA.

 

[wx_guy]

Pretty stinky flooding situation for northern FL and southern GA.
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Slowed down to 7 mph as of 2 PM. At least most of the models are showing it eventually kicking out to sea after a few days. The flooding is already gonna be bad enough, but having it just stick around for a week afterwards would just be horrible.

 

[warneagle]

High risk on the new day 2 excessive rainfall outlook.