Tropical Storm Ophelia made landfall on the North Carolina coast early Saturday, and it’s expected to bring damaging winds and dangerous surges of water, the US National Hurricane.
Tropical Storm Ophelia made landfall on the North Carolina coast early Saturday, and it’s expected to bring damaging winds and dangerous surges of water, the US National Hurricane Center said, per the AP. The storm touched down near Emerald Isle at around 6:20am ET, with maximum sustained winds of 70mph, the hurricane center noted on X, the site formerly known as Twitter. Life-threatening flooding caused by the weather system was forecast for parts of eastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, though the system is forecast to weaken now that it’s made landfall, the hurricane center reported. Ophelia was expected to turn north Saturday and then shift northeast on Sunday.
The storm promised a weekend of windy conditions and heavy rain up to 7 inches in parts of North Carolina and Virginia, and 2 to 4 inches in the rest of the mid-Atlantic region through Sunday.
