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Nicole remnants flooding East coast

Posted by Sheena Parveen under Daily updates

The remnants of Tropical Storm Nicole are causing heavy flooding through parts of the East coast, sending heavy rain from North Carolina to Maine.  Some of this flooding may reach record totals for 5 day long rainfall.  This would be close to record flooding from Hurricane Floyd in 1999 for some areas. 

Coastal areas in North Carolina are already seeing close to 21 inches of rain, topping Hurricane Floyd’s rainfall.  This image below is from Carolina Beach in North Carolina on Thursday, September 30th.

The remnants of Nicole will continue to the NE, as it has been absorbed into a frontal boundary. 

More disturbed weather is present in the Caribbean, as well as East of the Lesser Antilles.  This new tropical wave in the Atlantic Ocean is now Invest 97L, and it’s about 800 miles East of the Windward Islands.

Computer models track the storm moving W/NW, then once the storm is North of the Caribbean there is a disagreement between some of the models.  Both the HWRF and the CMC take the storm North before it reaches the U.S., but the BAMM and BAMS both continue this storm West.  If the storm stays North of the Caribbean, it has a better chance of staying in the Atlantic Ocean.   Once there is a better spin on the storm, models will be able to track it better.  By the time Invest 97L nears the U.S., it should run into a cold front exiting the Southeast U.S., which in turn will keep the system away from the Southeast, but the timing of a front this far out is not certain.