This Is The Most Dangerous Threat Posed By Tropical Storm Debby: AccuWeather Senior Director

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On "Forbes Newsroom," Senior Director of AccuWeather Dan DePodwin spoke about Tropical Storm Debby, the historic rainfall and life-threatening flooding it could cause, and where it is heading after Florida.

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00:00Mhm. Hi everybody. I'm B

00:05forbes breaking news. Joi

00:07senior director at Accu e

00:09Dan, thank you so much fo

00:11to be here with you, Britt

00:13about some big news comin

00:15made landfall as a catego

00:18on monday morning. Since

00:21to a tropical storm. But

00:23to know? So Debbie made l

00:27the category one hurrican

00:30from Debbie will be signi

00:33perhaps a historic floodi

00:36of South Carolina and nor

00:38the wind was an issue nea

00:41landfall along with a sig

00:43But the main story going

00:45the entire course of this

00:48what could be an historic

00:50with over 15 inches of ra

00:54Savannah. Some of the low

00:57Carolina is going to be i

00:59over a long period of tim

01:01to be expected to cause l

01:03flooding. You're mentioni

01:06in South Carolina and Geo

01:09the worst of Debbie so fa

01:12a lot of rain from Debbie

01:14rain is starting to wind

01:16we head through monday, e

01:17are going to be lingering

01:19problems. Tampa and the s

01:22up a record amount of rai

01:24as the bands from Debbie

01:26inches in some spots, whi

01:28to flooding. And that's w

01:30north into the panhandle

01:32of florida there where th

01:33a foot of rain. The good

01:35florida is that the impac

01:37wind down and now we're g

01:40into the Carolinas. It do

01:43storm since it made landf

01:45will continue to weaken a

01:49Certainly when it comes t

01:51looks like it's over, but

01:53uh to not let our guard d

01:56fact that in fact, unfort

01:59or the most fatal aspect

02:03is flooding and we expect

02:06though Debbie is a tropic

02:08the ways that act whether

02:09the tropical storms from

02:12storms is the actual weat

02:14scale for hurricanes. And

02:16a three on that scale, wh

02:18than one and then 1-5. So

02:20impactful storm. We expec

02:23flooding when we rate a s

02:26scale. And so even though

02:28has subsided from Debbie,

02:31that the flooding is going

02:33here for at least the nex

02:35As you said, Debbie's mov

02:38as well as South Carolina

02:41can those residents uh be

02:44that impact? So we expect

02:47a long lasting impact rea

02:51Tuesday, Wednesday and in

02:53thursday as well as Debbie

02:57the coast. It may go back

02:59and then make a second la

03:01expect that landfall to h

03:03amount of wind with it, b

03:05some strong winds very cl

03:07landfall. Again though, th

03:08to take three or four day

03:11the florida panhandle to n

03:13concerning and that's the

03:16rainfall is going to be th

03:19impact from Debbie. Can y

03:21why the slow moving storm

03:24more? Yeah, absolutely. U

03:29that again. Absolutely, B

03:33that the slow movement of

03:35history, unfortunately, o

03:37that are slow moving, caus

03:40some cases catastrophic f

03:42of the Carolinas are unfo

03:44with Florence in 2018, wh

03:46from amount of rainfall f

03:49both in South Carolina an

03:51may get close to those to

03:53the order of two ft of ra

03:56some places. So anytime y

03:58with a lot of moisture, w

03:59in a tropical system, the

04:02for for flooding and we m

04:06farther north into the mi

04:08the northeast come this w

04:10rain from what is Debbie

04:13direction later on this w

04:15for people who are perhap

04:18in South Carolina on vaca

04:21year round, but they're f

04:23tropical storm Debbie in

04:26Absolutely. So the impact

04:29couple of days will obvio

04:30one to those who are eith

04:33in the Carolinas. If you,

04:35who you are, please pay a

04:37heat all evacuation order

04:40living in a location or i

04:42there, know your differen

04:45routes, how much sort of

04:48of flooding and what type

04:52be an impact to you. Ther

04:53between storm surge flood

04:54coast where there can be

04:56surge where that ocean ri

04:59the significant push of w

05:02associated with tropical

05:03there's the combination o

05:05called freshwater floodin

05:07raining very heavily for

05:09And in places like Charle

05:12doesn't take a lot of rai

05:14a tropical system, they'v

05:16flooding in recent years

05:19And because they're close

05:21it's hard for the water t

05:23the ocean because of the

05:25in the ocean is already h

05:27surge. That's another rea

05:29between ocean flooding an

05:32That's another reason why

05:33are so concerned about th

05:35the Carolinas. I know you

05:37northeast, we'll see some

05:40does that look like? Is t

05:42the historic nature that

05:45are going to see? So at t

05:47we don't expect it to be

05:49the northeast, but there

05:52probably saturday or mayb

05:55across the mid atlantic a

05:56as we mentioned, will be

05:58by friday, it should start

06:00speed and move off to the

06:03go back offshore, but it

06:05interact with a different

06:07the Great Lakes and that

06:09impressive swath of rain

06:12the mid atlantic northeast

06:13like pennsylvania, Maryla

06:16New York City up into, up

06:18England. And we could be

06:20maybe 234 inches of rain,

06:22to cause pockets of flood

06:25areas might deal with som

06:28wing, sort of like a nore

06:30So we have to keep a close

06:32week here and we'll be do

06:33throughout the week, keep

06:35just on the historic flood

06:37the Carolinas, but the ev

06:39northeast. Dan, I want to

06:41just a little bit. Is the

06:43your radar when it comes

06:45season? So it's as Accuo

06:48really since march, we ex

06:51a supercharged hurricane

06:55or more named storms. We'

06:58seen four. We are still v

07:00hurricane season. We are

07:03The peak of the season is

07:05of september. So we have

07:08we do see plenty of more

07:10on the horizon. There's a

07:12moving into the caribbean

07:14could develop as it appro

07:16caribbean and maybe moves

07:17mexico come either late t

07:20weekend. So we'll have to

07:22It looks like there's ano

07:23behind it. So we have cer

07:25of the season now after a

07:27four week low and most of

07:29plenty to talk about here

07:31Dan to pod. When? Thank y

07:34weather. We always apprec

07:37we have with your team. I

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