The hurricane watch was issued for parts of Florida's Big Bend region, where the National Hurricane Center forecasts a landfall as a strong tropical storm by Monday morning.
Nouran Salahieh and Mary Gilbert, CNNThe hurricane watch was issued for parts of Florida's Big Bend region, where the National Hurricane Center forecasts landfall Monday morning.Parts of Florida are now under a hurricane watch as the chance Tropical Storm Debby could be a hurricane when it makes landfall in the state increases.
Tropical Depression Four currently has maximum sustained winds of 30 mph and is about 170 miles southeast of Key West, just off the coast of Cuba, according to the National Hurricane Center's 8 a.m. ET update.The storm is expected to enter the eastern Gulf of Mexico on Saturday and officially become Tropical Storm Debby, according to the hurricane center. Tropical storm conditions could begin Saturday night in parts of southwest Florida, and rain will start impacting parts of South Florida.
Warm water is fuel for storms to strengthen and potentially rapidly intensify, a phenomenon becoming more likely as global temperatures rise because of fossil fuel pollution. Up to 5 feet of storm surge is possible in parts of the Big Bend and up to 4 feet is possible from Bonita Beach north through Tampa Bay.
As a result, the risk of flooding rainfall was increased to a level 3 out of 4 over the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina, including Savannah and Charleston, for Monday into Tuesday.
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