It's possible that the National Hurricane Center will name the storm on Friday. The next on the list is Ophelia.
“There’s still a lot of uncertainty with the details,” said Alex Staarmann, meteorologist with the National Weather Service Office in Mount Holly. But, “it’s looking likely.”Sand eaters
The Shore towns, where 40 mph winds would be in play, are likely to get the worst of it, said John Feerick, senior meteorologist with AccuWeather Inc. Those winds likely would cause waters to pile up on the back bays, and coastal flooding is a strong possibility, Feerick said.Feerick said he expected the National Hurricane Center to pin a name on the disturbance, which was swirling off the Southeast coast on Wednesday. It will assume some tropical-storm characteristics, he said, and meet the criterion of peak winds of at least 39 mph. The next entry in the naming alphabet would be Ophelia.
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