Rain still in forecast this week from Tropical Storm Debby remnants

Rainy conditions are expected to continue into the week on the Treasure Coast from remnants of Tropical Storm Debby.

The storm traveled over the northern part of the state and southeastern Georgia and brought thunderstorms and wind gusts to some parts of the Treasure Coast over the weekend.

National Weather Service meteorologists said up to 2 inches of rain and 51 mph wind gusts were the extent of the impacts on the Treasure Coast as Tropical Storm Debby traveled northward roughly 130 miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday.

The storm made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane with 80 mph sustained winds at roughly 7 a.m. Monday in the Florida Big Bend region near Steinhatchee in Taylor and Dixie counties and caused flooding and widespread power outages.

Debby weakened after landfall and in the roughly four hours after landfall moved over the northern part of the state. The National Hurricane Center said the biggest threat from the system now is flooding from “extreme precipitation” in the southeastern United States.

“We’re still going to be in proximity to that system even though it’s (centered over) southeast Georgia,” said Meteorologist Brendan Schaper, with the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Melbourne.

A meteorologist said high rain chances would persist over the next few days from the remnants of Hurricane Debby which made landfall in the Florida Big Bend region as a Category 1 storm and quickly downgraded into a slow moving tropical storm Monday, August 5, 2024.

Rain chances will remain higher throughout the week because of the remnants of Debby to the north, he said.

“We’re going to still be in kind of a soggy pattern as we go into Tuesday and even part of Wednesday,” Schaper said.

A roughly 60% to 80% chance of rain Tuesday would fall to 50% to 60% Wednesday and by Thursday he said a more typical wet season, daytime storm pattern would resume for mostly inland areas.

Temperatures were forecast to be “a little warmer each day” in the low-to-mid 90s.

As what was then Tropical Storm Debby passed offshore in the Gulf on Sunday, outer storm bands brought anywhere from ½-inch to 2 inches of rain in bands spanning inland areas of Martin County, Port St. Lucie and up to “just west of Vero Beach,” Schaper said.

So far, he said there were no reports of damage or tornadoes in the Treasure Coast counties.

Wind gust speeds Sunday reached 51 mph near Jaycee Beach Park in Vero Beach just before 7 p.m., while speeds of 49 mph were recorded in Fort Pierce and 45 mph at the House of Refuge in the Stuart area, Schaper said.

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Corey Arwood is a breaking news reporter for TCPalm and Treasure Coast Newspapers. Follow @coreyarwood on X, email corey.arwood@tcpalm.com or call 772-978-2246.

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