Although it looks like we will see rain in the forecast for Monday and Tuesday it doesn’t appear that the Catawba Valley/Unifour will feel the extended effects of Tropical Storm Imelda.
Weather.com reports that Imelda is most likely expected to stall off the Southeast coast for a day or two beginning Tuesday before turning east away from the coast, possibly toward Bermuda.
Originally, Imelda was forecast to make landfall in the Carolinas; however, models now show the storm tracking out to sea.
Models have also called for this storm to slow down, which means it could take longer to move through the Bahamas. It also means that since it will linger near the Southeast, the threat of heavy rain and coastal flooding remains, even though models are pulling the storm away from a direct landfall.