PLEASE NOTE: Instead of us reposting all of the advisories and discussions here today, please check in on the 3340 tropical weather page. It will show you all the latest advisories, discussions, tracking map, you name it. This link will take you quickly and directly to it:
http://www.abc3340.com/weather/tropics.html
Here on the blog, we will try to post additional spot reports and other notes that are not normally included in the advisories. We have a lot of people from the Carolinas that read this material.
LATE NOTES:
* Gusts to 51 mph on Greenville Loop Road in Wilmington
* Oak Island, N.C., reports 5 inches of additional rain since midnight for a storm total of 9 inches so far.
* Southport, N.C., several large oak trees uprooted.
* At Carolina Beach, metal canopy over gas pump island at a service station blown off.
SPOT REPORTS AT 9 AM EDT
Virgina Beach...partly sunny, wind east 15
Kill Devil Hills, N.C.,...partly sunny, wind east 12, gusts 18
Cape Hatteras...partly sunny, wind NE 26 sustained
Wilmington...driving rain, wind NE 36, gusts 52
Fayetteville, N.C.,...light rain, wind NE 15
Cape Lookout, N.C.,...wind ESE 41, gusts 47
Diamond Shoals, N.C.,...wind SE 28, gusts 34 (10-foot waves)
Beaufort, N.C.,...driving rain, wind SE 25, gusts 40
Cherry Point...wind east 22, gusts 28
All wind speeds in MPH
http://www.abc3340.com/weather/tropics.html
Here on the blog, we will try to post additional spot reports and other notes that are not normally included in the advisories. We have a lot of people from the Carolinas that read this material.
LATE NOTES:
* Gusts to 51 mph on Greenville Loop Road in Wilmington
* Oak Island, N.C., reports 5 inches of additional rain since midnight for a storm total of 9 inches so far.
* Southport, N.C., several large oak trees uprooted.
* At Carolina Beach, metal canopy over gas pump island at a service station blown off.
SPOT REPORTS AT 9 AM EDT
Virgina Beach...partly sunny, wind east 15
Kill Devil Hills, N.C.,...partly sunny, wind east 12, gusts 18
Cape Hatteras...partly sunny, wind NE 26 sustained
Wilmington...driving rain, wind NE 36, gusts 52
Fayetteville, N.C.,...light rain, wind NE 15
Cape Lookout, N.C.,...wind ESE 41, gusts 47
Diamond Shoals, N.C.,...wind SE 28, gusts 34 (10-foot waves)
Beaufort, N.C.,...driving rain, wind SE 25, gusts 40
Cherry Point...wind east 22, gusts 28
All wind speeds in MPH