Hurricane Matthew Update
Hurricane Matthew Update: I wish I had better news, but unfortunately the news is not good. We were hoping that Matthew would track farther out to sea, but indications are that it will hug the coast. That means higher storm…
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Hurricane Matthew Update
The forecast for Hurricane Matthew remains largely unchanged. We'll see rain starting on Friday with the most intense rain and wind developing late Friday night into early Saturday. Expect up to 6 inches of rain in the Eastern Midlands -…
Hurricane Matthew Update
The latest forecast on Hurricane Matthew has remained largely unchanged. We're still looking at a hurricane skirting the South Carolina Coast. The impact will start to be felt late Friday night in Hilton Head and spread north throughout the day…
Hurricane Matthew Update
The latest forecast still brings Hurricane Matthew along the South Carolina coast on Saturday. It's important to know that this is the best estimate, given what we know right now. On this track the coast would take the most significant…
Hurricane Matthew Update
Hurricane Matthew is still a very powerful Category 4 Hurricane. It's expected to continue to move north over the next several days. On its current path, it's expected to be somewhere near the South Carolina Coast on Saturday. Please stay…
Hurricane Matthew
Hurricane Matthew is now a very powerful Category 5 Hurricane with winds of 160 mph. It's expected to push to the north over the next several days. A lot of folks have asked if this storm will hit us here…
Tropical Storm Matthew
Tropical Storm Matthew has formed. Over the next few days it's expected to move through the Caribbean and strengthen into a hurricane. By early next week, it's expected to be somewhere south of Cuba, but where it goes after that…
First Day of Fall
Today is the first day of fall, or the autumnal equinox. On this day, the sun's rays shine directly over the equator and every place on the earth gets the same amount (hours and minutes) of daylight and darkness.
Tropical Storm Julia Update
Julia is still Tropical Storm, but weakening and slowly drifting farther out to sea. And Julia is expected to continue wobbling in the same general area for the next several days. That means the here in the Midlands we'll have…
Tropical Storm Julia Update
Tropical Storm Julia is now expected to drift more out to sea and have smaller impacts both here and at the coast. So expect a few scattered showers in the Midlands with more widespread ran at the beaches through Friday.
New Tropical Storm
A circulation just south of Jacksonville Florida has become Tropical Storm Julia. The Hurricane Center has issued the following forecast, which has the storm dying out by Thursday night over Georgia. There is a lot of uncertainty with this storm.…
Parts of South Carolina still in a drought
Tropical Storm Hermine soaked much of the state last week - dropping up to 7 inches of rain in spots. But according to NOAA, that wasn't quite enough to end the drought for parts of South Carolina.
Potentially Flooding Rain From Hermine
Tropical Storm Hermine is still on track to bring potentially flooding rain today - especially to the Eastern Midlands. The updated rain projections are below. The Western Midlands - places like Newberry County, will get roughly 2 inches of rain…
Hermine is headed our way
Hermine has strengthened to a Category 1 Hurricane with winds of 75 mph. It will make landfall on the Florida Coast late this evening. As it continues to push north it will weaken back down to a tropical storm, and…
Possible Flooding Rain - Tropical Storm Hermine
Tropical Storm Hermine has formed in the Gulf of Mexico. Hermine is expected to track over Florida, Georgia, then through Central South Carolina on Friday with very heavy rain. Rainfall totals are expected to range from 3 to 6 inches,…
Tropical Depression 9, likely to become a tropical storm
Tropical Depression 9 is in the Gulf of Mexico right now. It's expected to develop into a Tropical Storm over the next few days and then move north and east over Florida and skirt the South Carolina Coast. At this…
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