Thursday, August 21, 2008

Fay Update...Late Thursday Night


You've probably heard about the tremendous amount of rain and flooding over central Florida the last couple of days. Here are some of totals as of late Thursday afternoon:

Melbourne NWS Office: 18.21"
Cape Canaveral: 20.03" (through 5 AM Thursday)
Palm Shores: 19.67"
Hobe Sound: 13.84"
Jensen Beach: 12.95"
Port St. Lucie: 11.52"
Palm Shores: 11.17"
Stuart: 11.05"

Malabar: 10.48"
Fort Pierce: 8.98"
Palm Bay: 7.31"
Cocoa: 5.72"

As of late night, Fay is drifting west across the Florida Peninsula and dumping heavy rains over northeast Florida. It is about 25 miles west-northwest of Daytona Beach, FL (11 P.M. NHC advisory). The westward movement is expected to continue with a gradual shift to the west-northwest during the next couple of days. Maximum sustained winds near 60 mph are expected to come down a bit as gradual weakening occurs over land. Additional flooding and isolated tornadoes are possible over northeast Florida, southeastern Georgia and even southern South Carolina through Friday.

The forecast track from the hurricane models continuesto show the storm remaining over the Deep South through early next week, with continued weakening. Eventually some of the moisture may make its way up into the Mid-Atlantic by later Tuesday and Wednesday. We shall see...

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