Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Tropical Storm Colin lashes southeastern US coast with flooding rain

By Renee Duff, AccuWeather.com Meteorologist
June 7,2016; 6:09PM,EDT
 
Tropical Storm Colin will continue to impact portions of the southeastern United States with flooding rain and rough seas on Tuesday.
Colin made landfall near Deckle Beach in Taylor County, Florida, on Monday night. The storm then raced across northern Florida early Tuesday morning.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency on Monday in preparation for the storm. Scott also activated the state's national guard, with more than 6,000 guardsmen ready for deployment.
Portions of the Florida Panhandle received up to 10 inches of rain in under 12 hours on Monday.
As Colin rolled ashore, the U.S. Coast Guard rescued two people from a sinking houseboat in Bradenton Beach, Florida, according to a local news outlet.

While Colin exited Florida early Tuesday, additional downpours are expected across central portions of the Sunshine State during the day.
Rough surf will continue along the Atlantic Coast from Florida to the Carolinas, Virginia and Delmarva.
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Flash flooding will remain a concern in part of the Florida Peninsula, especially in the areas hit the hardest from Tropical Storm Bonnie during the last few days of May.
Numerous roadways were flooded from heavy rain across parts of Georgia and South Carolina on Monday night, according to local officials.

Colin be rapidly swept away from the rest of the United States by a cold front that will usher fresh cool air into the Northeast.
Following some additional strengthening over the Atlantic, the system will lose its tropical characteristics by midweek. However, it could still bring rough seas, gusty winds and drenching thunderstorms to Bermuda.
In the East Pacific, the first tropical depression of the season has formed, and is expected to make landfall along the southern coast of Mexico late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning.
Content contributed by AccuWeather Senior Meteorologists Kristina Pydynowski and Alex Sosnowski.



Nancy Kay Vocals ·
BACKYARD AUDIO frogs go wild before sunrise after Colin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md351tx_4I8
Marilyn Carver ·
How is it in OcALA?
Beth McMahon
I'm about 50 miles south...a good bit of rain but nothing major here.
Like · Reply · 15 hrs
Marilyn Carver ·
Beth McMahon Thank you Beth!
Like · Reply · 15 hrs
George Markos ·
Didn't even have enough rain to make it worth sitting on the porch with a bag of chips.
Like · Reply · 1 · 13 hrs
Jack Adinolfi ·
Had 5 1/2" in Belleview but not much else!
Like · Reply · 10 hrs
Thomas Houck
Jacksonville, FL - Monday and Monday evening. Traveled trhrugh bands and bands of heavy rain. One band so intense had to slow down, on Interstae 95, to about 40 MPH and turn on flashers so my car would be visible to other motorists.
George Markos ·
Turning on your flashers means you are stopped on the side of the road... just turn your lights on, we'll see you.
Like · Reply · 13 hrs
Clague Bruening ·
George Markos And using flashers while driving is a moving violation in Florida.
Like · Reply · 13 hrs
Kendrick Cooper
I'm just north of Cedar Key near Fanning Springs. Right in the corridor. So far, lots of rain, virtually no wind.
Julie Anne Curristan
Hi, up here in Merritt Island, 5 miles south of the Kennedy Space Center entrance. Rained earlier, now it's drizzling. That's all. Really. Not much lightning. Not much of anything . . . other than hype.
Keith Cook
Here in Jefferson County we are at 10.55" of rain and still raining. It started at about 04:00 this A.M., winds currently varible at 8 M.P.H. out of the N.E. 18:30 hrs.
Vince Ramos
Which "category" is this tropical storm?
William Ruting ·
The NWS doesn't apply "category" to tropical storms, only hurricanes.
Like · Reply · Jun 6, 2016 5:59pm
George Markos ·
A tropical cyclone is called a tropical storm when the winds are between 39 - 73 mph.
Like · Reply · 13 hrs
Michale Worley ·
This is so lame...

Down here in Florida, we don't even get out of bed for anything less than a Cat 2.. :^/

Come on... Have a little perspective...
Jfer Rinaudo ·
.... near brooksville. it doesnt look like its gonna be to bad thank god.
Elisabet Mondelo ·
my son going to fly Miami -Boston by next saturday ....¿¡
Yaminah Millares
I am i Miami we just have rain right now. The storm will impact further Northern Florida more
Like · Reply · Jun 6, 2016 9:01pm
Paula Jones
I watched the video. That's a "passing shower" for Chicago.
Ann Deatherage ·
Lot of hullabaloo over a "tropical" storm ..that likely won't do anymore than an average good ole Florida summer THUNDERSTORM.....Bring it on..we need the rain..starting to look like desert in my neck of the woods in FL.
Louis Varricchio
Where in Florida are you?
Like · Reply · Jun 6, 2016 1:48pm
Ann Deatherage ·
Louis Varricchio central..been in Florida since 1979.
Like · Reply · Jun 6, 2016 1:49pm
Benny Ferguson ·
No, but if a tornada happens to hit you from it, it could be worse than a cat. 2
Like · Reply · 1 · Jun 6, 2016 6:54pm
Ann Deatherage ·
Benny Ferguson Yes..and we get them with severe thunderstorms here in Fl once in awhile..it happens..not fun but it happens..
Like · Reply · Jun 6, 2016 8:41pm
Ann Deatherage ·
we've had rain.but not even any thunder today at all, rain comes and goes with the bands..Best way to get our much needed rain with our aquifers being so low..better than an actual hurricane!
Like · Reply · Jun 6, 2016 8:44pm
Nancy Kay Vocals ·
Damns don't burst here and there's not Texas size flooding but there are neighborhoods by intracoastal waterways that are always under water and passing cars create a wake. I recommend plastic patio furniture and keep the good stuff on a second floor if one has a second floor. And, storm surges can reach the top floors of huge beach homes. Storm surges and tornadoes are basically the worst here in Tampa Bay. Flooding can happen from rain but again, it's called elevation. LIve on high ground and you have less grief.
Nancy Kay Vocals ·
lol I mean "dams." The barometric pressure has affected my ability to spell.
Like · Reply · 4 · Jun 6, 2016 11:28am
D Lynn Lear ·
Nancy Kay Vocals Or not! lolol
Like · Reply · 23 hrs
Nancy Kay Vocals ·
I forgot. I don't live in an evac zone either but if it rains a lot, we've had cars followed by police cruisers drive right into our retention pond. It's dangerous to drive in moderate to heavy rains when there are a lack of guard rails for ponds and canals. Impossible to cover every eventuality. Lots of bad storms here and disasters but not right here but too close for comfort.
Jake Pannelal
So it's gonna rain in Florida....again.
Ralph Meyer ·
I went to Home Depot to get supplies for the storm but they were out of shovels and rock salt. People are taking this storm seriously!
Rick Steingress
You're a funny guy, Ralph. :)
Like · Reply · 2 · Jun 6, 2016 7:39am
Nancy Kay Vocals ·
Probably not but do you have pythons and alligators swimmin' around too?
Like · Reply · 2 · Jun 6, 2016 11:18am
Ralph Meyer ·
Nancy Kay Vocals .... we do during the winter... we call them "snowbirds". But they head back up north after Easter.
Like · Reply · 6 · Jun 6, 2016 11:41am
Nancy Kay Vocals ·
Piece of cake. When in the south, try to not live in a flood zone
Tom Benham ·
Ok to live in a flood zone in the north?
Like · Reply · Jun 5, 2016 10:06pm
Pamela Patrick ·
Works at Delta Air Lines
I lived in Boulder Colorado and had the flood of the century....REally! Does not matter anymore where you live!
Like · Reply · 1 · Jun 6, 2016 2:12am
Bruce Patterson ·
Wher would that be?
Like · Reply · Jun 6, 2016 11:15am
Margie Horvath ·
Pamela Patrick was there during the flood of the century, your right, doesn't matter where you live!
Like · Reply · Jun 6, 2016 11:22am
DiLeon Di Morrow ·
Here in Hawaii a tropical storm can become a full force hurricane within a few hundred miles out,....Iniki was a good example. Fact is no one including the weather man knows where and what this will be come and it never makes sense to not prepare, the worst diasters come from everyone saying.....nothing but a rain storm.
Like · Reply · 1 · Jun 6, 2016 1:55pm
Jenn Miller
Pamela Patrick Possibly but this is our second storm in weeks. Much land here is swamp land. So what she means is stay out of the swamp lands and low sea level areas.
Like · Reply · Jun 6, 2016 3:11pm
Jamie Mayfield ·
Checked to see if work was going to be canceled. No luck, said UF is ruining as normal. So I get to drive home in a storm in horrible traffic. Tomorrow will be great.
Annette Ingraffea Horner ·
Gonna be hell on the roads tomorrow.
Like · Reply · Jun 5, 2016 9:01pm
Darissa Miasam
Political Hostage ......That's what they said about this storm...Oct 27, 2012 - There's no sugar-coating it — New Jersey should be bracing for potentially one of the worst storms in its history. ..Warning someone about a potential storm is not "fear mongering"
Like · Reply · 2 · Jun 6, 2016 1:43am
Jamie Mayfield ·
Political Hostage Went through six hurricans now but also drove through a ton of tropical storms. Traffic on my way home is horrible and Gainesville drivers are horrible. Not worried about the strom, worried about all the traffic. Case and point, my car was in perfect condition for five years, then I moved to Gainesville, four hit and runs and three accedents, none my fault. My car looks like shit, bad weather just makes me cringe now. People can barely drive when it is nothing but blue skys.
Like · Reply · Jun 6, 2016 10:10am
Randy Wilcox ·
Can she not say the word "Tropical"?
Randy Wilcox ·
Ugh. Just watched it again. The word is TRAH-PI-CAL. THREE syllables.
Like · Reply · Jun 5, 2016 7:07pm
Amber Weihrich ·
Works at Student
Women cannot say tropical to save her life.
Like · Reply · 1 · Jun 5, 2016 8:50pm
D Lynn Lear ·
/Whom? Can't find the video, but I don't doubt you! Most of our local forecasters don't bother to pronounce names, areas, streets, cities, etc. correctly.
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Katie O'Malley ·
When I first heard of this depression/storm, my first thought was "great, my birding trip to Ft. DeSoto [this Thursday] might be off!"

I think I need to reassess my priorities.
Nancy Kay Vocals ·
For this type of event priorities: toilet paper, water, beverages and potato chips or nachos. It's a nice cooling rain. So far so good here anyway.
Like · Reply · Jun 6, 2016 11:19am
Art Dorrer ·
Northeast/Southeast either or it's the bad side of any hurricane. Been through 9, will this be number 10? Evacuated once, never again unless it's a 4 or higher.
Lonnie Williams ·
I've been in one in Florida and 2 in Houston Tx.
Like · Reply · Jun 5, 2016 6:03pm
Michael Voight ·
It's not going to be a hurricane this week
Like · Reply · 1 · Jun 5, 2016 7:20pm
Hunter McDonald ·
Political Hostage you live in the wrong part then
Like · Reply · Jun 6, 2016 8:31am
D Lynn Lear ·
Michael Voight / Not here. My toes don't hurt enough!!
Like · Reply · 23 hrs
Hans Boortman ·
wow,another neatly engineered system,I see the symptons already,get ready for a blanket overcast for a few days.
Mary Bailey
Yes, I totally agree Ron, my little garden is really sad, i just hope we won't see tornado weather.
Karen A. Oliver ·
Need the rain, but...
Ron Grutz ·
We in New Smyrna Beach have been in a drought for 2 months. Any rain would be a blessing.
Mark Sense
Hi Ron
I have a house beach side in NSB but up north right now. Saw the rain falling from my cameras but it looks like it is done now. Hope all is well.
Like · Reply · Jun 6, 2016 7:24pm
Ron Grutz ·
Mark Sense Still getting a few bands of rain. Forecast calling for more rain wed. through sat.
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Caroline Thompson-Riefner ·
I'm sorry, but can this site make a tropical storm any more extremely ominous, theatening and out and out dangerous.
It's a possible tropical storm; it's not the end of the world.
Tracy Sloan
People have died in Tropical Storms. Ask the victims of Katrina or Andrew if their world didn't end when those hurricanes hit that were downplayed.
Like · Reply · 1 · Jun 5, 2016 4:15pm
Ann Gillam ·
Tracy Sloan - Katrina was hardly a "tropical storm"...ask how I know (Gulfport, MS).
Like · Reply · 3 · Jun 5, 2016 4:42pm
Katie O'Malley ·
Tracy Sloan Those were both hurricanes.
Like · Reply · 5 · Jun 5, 2016 5:49pm
Katie O'Malley ·
Several years ago my family and I got literally swamped by TS Allison, though, admittedly because of Houston's sh***y drainage systens and a creek right behind our house.
Like · Reply · 1 · Jun 5, 2016 5:51pm
Will Rossman ·
Katie O'Malley And Katrina wouldn't have been so tragically remembered if they'd had a properly maintained and modernized levee system. Lives were lost regardless. I do agree that a TS can be little worse than a severe thunderstorm complex any part of the eastern US can get during summer though.
Like · Reply · 2 · Jun 5, 2016 6:36pm
John Friedhof
Tracy Sloan you may want to check the classification of storms...
Like · Reply · Jun 5, 2016 8:58pm
Peggy Larson ·
Katie O'Malley TS Allison also gave us 16 days of rain. The only name retired for a TS that never developed into a Hurricane. - Everyone else: Remember "SuperStorm Sandy"? Another "not a hurricane", did some serious damage. Or, Hurricane Ike in 2008, filled the entire Gulf at one point, but because it was classified as a Cat 2, most coastal residental said it was no big deal. Wrong.
Like · Reply · Jun 6, 2016 12:31pm
Shallyn Shiv Willey ·
Tracy Sloan ...I was a survivor of Andrew. Hardly a tropical storm. Furthermore tropical storms (generally) arent in themselves dangerous. The secondary problems associated with it are. (Possible flooding and tornado development) as long as you live in a sturdy home with good drainage ppl should be just fine. Its really no diffrent then a bad thunderstorm.
Unless there is further development it iSNT a big deal....northern florida has pretty adequate drainage and isnt prone to flooding.
so ppl running about screaming and screaming about doom and catastrophe need to have a seat. Unless of course temporary power outages branches off a tree or puddles are now considered news worthy items.
t.s. Allison...and sandy are exceptions and not rules...rare example of storms not the norm and effected places that normally dont see wether events like that.

relax and enjoy the rain...its part of living in florida. Jesus ppl
Like · Reply · Jun 6, 2016 1:02pm
Lynn Bradley ·
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/satellite.php
All the Gulf Of Mexico Images and image loops are there.
Yolanda Prado
pay close attention to eveything that the weather man says carefully, some station hype things up and get you scared...watch channel 9 (brightHouse) they are very good in giving you information...right now its just a lot of rain and wind coming towards us....trust me I get anxiety when hurrican season comes... I have lived in Florida all my life ( 67 years) but we can not control nature...we just have to deal with it and prepare for the worst and hope for the best....
Katie O'Malley ·
Maybe the stations and web sites "hype it up" so they get more viewers. OMG CHANNEL 'X' says WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE, let's keep it on so we know when to panic!" :P
Like · Reply · 2 · Jun 5, 2016 6:03pm
Peggy Larson ·
Katie O'Malley That's what Dr. Neil Frank did during Hurricane Rita, while all the other channels said it was going towards Beaumont. Since it was a week after Katrina, & he had been the Director of National Hurricane Center, a lot of people trusted his opinion. Hence, people dieing in the traffic jams trying to get further North. Haven't paid attention to that crap since.
Like · Reply · Jun 6, 2016 12:35pm
Don Steele ·
Whomever the "attempted" jounalist is at this weak "fear" mongering.....is an idiot. The "storm" isn't named yet...won't be named...will dissipate into a remnant low after Cancun....Florida, at BEST, will get it's normal afternoon thunderstorms.
WeatherMatrix
The NHC just initiated advisories on Tropical Depression Three at 11 am. This includes a Tropical Storm Warning for part of the Florida west coast.
Like · Reply · 3 · Jun 5, 2016 11:21am
Michael Voight ·
So, Don, you know more than the experts who issued a Tropical Storm Warning for Florida?
Like · Reply · 1 · Jun 5, 2016 4:04pm
Tracy Sloan
It's people like you that downplay this that aren't prepared for when something like Charlie, Katrina, or Andrew hit. Every storm, even a thunderstorm, has the potential to be the last storm that you ever see. Not fear-mongering, just truth.
Like · Reply · 1 · Jun 5, 2016 4:18pm
Southeast Georgia Weather
Dude, you'e way off. This is almost word-for-word with what the NWS is saying. But clearly, Don is much more of a meterologist than the dozens working on it. And clearly more intelligent than the supercomputers modeling this storm.
Like · Reply · 1 · Jun 5, 2016 4:19pm
Michael Voight ·
I guess you were wrong Don.. It is a named Tropical Storm now.
Like · Reply · 1 · Jun 5, 2016 10:13pm

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