Waters off Southeast coast could generate next tropical threat

AccuWeather forecasters are monitoring the potential for tropical development near the East Coast late this week.

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00:00 Well, I always say never trust a stall boundary this time of the year, and we're going to

00:04 be getting a stall boundary across Florida over the next couple of days.

00:07 Here's that boundary today pressing to the south.

00:10 By the way, there's going to be spotty thunderstorms today and tomorrow as that front moves on

00:15 through, and then it is going to be stalling here as we get into Wednesday, Thursday and

00:21 Friday.

00:22 High pressure is going to start building in the northeast.

00:24 You're going to start getting increasing winds out of the east northeast.

00:28 The combination of those east northeasterly winds on the southern side of high pressure

00:32 and that stall boundary means we're going to get an area of low pressure to develop

00:37 off the Carolina coast beginning Friday and over the upcoming weekend.

00:41 Now the question is, can this sit over the warm water long enough that it becomes tropical?

00:46 I think it probably will.

00:48 I don't think this will end up being a hurricane.

00:50 I really don't, but I do think it will be at the very least a tropical depression, if

00:54 not a tropical storm.

00:55 It'll then be drawn northward late this weekend, and I'll tell you what, we could be looking

01:00 at some heavy rain across eastern North Carolina and the mid-Atlantic over this weekend as

01:06 this area of low pressure first develops, then lifts northward here.

01:10 So it may not have a lot of wind, but I think it has the potential for a lot of rain and

01:15 the potential for flash flooding again, eastern Carolinas and into the mid-Atlantic states

01:20 this weekend.

01:20 yet.

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