Tropical Storm Debby has slowed down significantly since landfall Monday morning and has been causing extreme rainfall across the SE.

South Carolina has been getting slammed with the heaviest rain, with some spots getting over a foot of rainfall in just 2 days. Georgia and North Carolina are also picking up on big rain totals.

Here the latest track: Debby is still a tropical storm with sustained winds of 45 mph. Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 185 miles from the center.

The storm is crawling to the NE at 4mph, slowing down even more on Tuesday and Wednesday. By Friday, the storm starts to pick up some forward motion to the north-northeast.

Debby is forecast to weaken as it travels inland, but this storm will still bring heavy rain and gusty winds to the NE.

Debby was a proficient rain producer while the storm jogged parallel to Florida’s west coast before making landfall on the Big Bend.

Southwest Florida and the Tampa Bay area got the dirty side as the storm’s outer rainbands swept across the state. Flooding was the biggest impact, but tropical-storm-force winds and dangerous storm surge also moved through.

Since landfall Monday morning, Debby weakened back into a tropical storm. As of the 2:00 update, winds have weakened a bit more with sustained winds of 65 mph.

The other big thing to note in the latest advisory is how much the storm has slowed down. This is going to be a big rain maker as it head for the FL-GA line and the Carolinas.

This is going to bring potentially historic heavy rainfall to these SE states as Debby is going to lose steering flow, causing it to stall out and spin over these area for days.

We will likely still be talking about Debby through the end of this week. Once the storm gets close and potentially spins over warm Gulf Stream waters, it will have additional fuel to sustain itself.

Debby is now forecast to track all the way up the Atlantic Coast into Saturday before weakening to a tropical depression.

The excessive rain outlook for the Georgia and South Carolina coasts are at the highest level, the areas in pink, where up to 2 feet of rain could fall over several days.

Ernesto is the next name on the 2024 hurricane list. It may not be long before we’re tracking our next tropical wave. We’re already eying a potential area of interest in the Atlantic Basin.