While most of the attention on the budding tropical storm swirling off Cuba on Saturday is on the expected impacts to Florida this weekend, several signs point to the storm having a second life.
While most of the attention on the budding tropical storm swirling off Cuba on Saturday is on the expected impacts to Florida this weekend, several signs point to the storm having a second life off the southeastern US coast, bringing a renewed threat of flooding rains, damaging wind and dangerous storm surge.
What will likely become Tropical Storm Debby later Saturday is forecast to eventually make landfall along the northwestern coast of Florida later Sunday or early Monday as a strong tropical storm or low-end hurricane.
Once the storm moves inland into northern Florida, there is uncertainty about the storm’s next chapter.
Weakening steering currents will cause the storm to slow down over northern Florida.
“Every single computer model shows a trend of this storm slowing down dramatically,” FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin said.
Current projections have the storm eventually drifting along the southeastern US coastline through the middle of the week — if not longer — with possible paths pushing the storm back over the Atlantic.
