While Tropical Storm Imelda churned up rough surf off the shore of Folly Beach, conditions remained calm enough for people to get out and enjoy the day, as seen in this live report with AccuWeather's Ali Reid.
00:00And Emila continues to gain strength off the southeast coast, but Hurricane Humberto going to steer it out to sea.
00:06So we've got storm surge, flooding, and flooding rain and gusty winds will not be in short supply along parts of the southeast coast this week.
00:14Accuweather's Allie Reed joins us from Folley Beach, South Carolina, where she's tracking the conditions.
00:19Allie, it's windy there.
00:25Yeah, certainly there's going to be some wind to go along with the rough surf behind us as well.
00:29But ultimately here in South Carolina, specifically live from Folley Beach this evening, the overall consensus here is that people are very happy with the fact that some smiling faces.
00:42Oh, I don't know, though.
00:43They're repping Cincinnati.
00:44I don't know if I could.
00:45Bengals, not so much.
00:47But lots of smiling faces to go around here in South Carolina.
00:50And that has been the overall mood throughout the day today.
00:53A lot of people saying, you know what?
00:55Thank goodness Imelda turned off.
00:57It went into sea.
00:58It wasn't going to make that landfall.
01:00And that has been what has led to those smiling faces throughout the day today.
01:04I want to take this some video, if we can, to give you kind of that side-by-side perspective.
01:08Okay, so we're live from Folley Beach.
01:09But then about 20 minutes down the road from where we are is going to be that downtown Charleston area.
01:15Now, if you are familiar with this region, you know that Charleston is notorious for flooding.
01:20And that's because it is in a low-lying region.
01:23So, time and time again, even with just a little bit of rain sometimes, the downtown area can really see some significant flooding.
01:31That was going to be the question throughout the day today.
01:34Now, the good news is that if you could see around us, not sunny skies, but we've got some overcast clouds here, right?
01:40And we've been seeing the rain.
01:42At times, it was a little heavier earlier this morning.
01:45But for the most part, it was rather light when you're talking about rain throughout the day today.
01:50So, again, the low-lying areas, the areas that you potentially would see that flooding, thankfully, you didn't see that today here in Charleston.
01:58Now, we got talking to some people throughout the downtown area who said, there's one guy we got talking to who said, we were here for a wedding.
02:06And he's grateful.
02:07Take a listen.
02:08They were holding their breath a little bit.
02:10I think there's a little conversation around, are we going to be able to get out?
02:12But thankfully, it veered off a little bit, and everything works out pretty good.
02:17It looks like people are still out enjoying the day.
02:19I mean, we're from L.A., so we don't see rain all that often.
02:22So getting a little bit of overcast weather is nice.
02:28So he's enjoying the outdoors.
02:30A lot of people, overall consensus, that's the same thing.
02:33And, guys, if we can take back live now, here's the pier.
02:36So, again, you see some of those angry waves.
02:37But we think back to a few weeks ago and talking about Hurricane Aaron in North Carolina.
02:43Waves there, much stronger, much louder, much angrier.
02:47We were seeing anywhere from 10 to 12-foot waves just a few weeks ago when we're talking about that.
02:52Here, very different scenario.
02:54Certainly a sight to see.
02:55And many people agreeing.
02:56I mean, if you take a look up on the pier, you will see some people that are just veering out enjoying the day today.
03:01We've seen some surfers, but no people that are in the water because they say it's too dangerous.
03:06The rip currents are too strong for that to happen today.
03:09But, again, overall consensus, overall feeling of the day today, thank goodness, Jeff, that it started to veer out to sea.
03:17Well, Allie, even if you occasionally run into a few Cincinnati fans, you always find the Byrds fans, even if they're from Southern California.
03:24How about that?
03:25Thanks for your report there.
03:26Good stuff.
03:27And we're glad this is a very manageable hit.
03:28Of course.
03:29Yeah.
03:30Good stuff, Allie.
03:30We'll check back in with you in a little bit here.
03:33Heading up the road to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
03:36Here we are in far northeastern South Carolina.
03:38And you can see the rain out there and some rough surf, but a manageable storm for us.
03:43And this is kind of what the doctor ordered.
03:45It's been good that we are dealing with, again, a little bit of a delayed push north for the storm
03:50because that allowed the upper-level low-pressure system to weaken enough that the vacuum effect here,
03:55that that would have imparted on the Carolina coast, it's kind of running out of batteries right now.
04:00So that is shutting off.
04:01And now the dominant factor is powerhouse Hurricane Umberto with its circulation beginning to kind of dictate what's going on in conjunction with the base of this trough off the east coast.
04:12So on average, the most significant flow now near Imelda is a west-to-east push.
04:19It's going to take it out to sea after its drift north where it produced flooding rain in the Bahamas.
04:24It's on an unusual path.
04:25I do want to point out, again, Melissa Constander has been tracking this late last week.
04:29She talked about the Fujiwara effect.
04:30You can learn more about that from Alex De Silva on AccuWeather.com.
04:33If you get two big storms within about 850 miles of one another, sometimes we begin to see the Fujiwara effect in which one interacts with the other.
04:41Here we're dealing with under 600 miles separating the two storms.
04:44So the more powerful storm, Umberto, is going to dictate what happens to Imelda in taking it out to sea.
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