Most deaths related to water are associated with vehicles. Six inches of moving water can knock down people and 2 feet of moving water can sweep vehicles away, the Federal Emergency Management Agency warned on Thursday morning.
Heavy rain could lead to dangerous flash flooding. "The very unusual part is it's going to last about two days, so that means we're going to have to be very patient." "Seven inches of rain may be expected in the upstate," he said. There is also a count of the number of days with wet weather, when precipitation. Each place has a total for the amount of precipitation it usually receives in a year.
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The tables below give yearly averages for rainfall plus snowfall at cities, communities and other locations around North Carolina. The Pee Dee River is expected to flood and upstate areas could experience landslides, McMaster added. Average Annual Precipitation for North Carolina. South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster in a news briefing Thursday afternoon said that rainfall is expected to reach up to 20 inches in Myrtle Beach, up to 15 inches in the Pee Dee region and up to 10 inches in Charleston, Columbia and possibly Greenville. #ncwx /T7azP9vHvN- NWS Newport/Morehead September 13, 2018 #Florence has weakened some but extremely dangerous storm surge and catastrophic multiple feet of rainfall is still anticipated for eastern North Carolina.
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The latest update from the National Hurricane Center. If you're inland from the coast and thinking this one isn't about you, this one is about you, in North Carolina and portions of South Carolina."
"In fact, one out of four deaths are associated with inland extreme rainfall from these systems. The system is expected to bring a huge inland rainfall threat as well, with 6 to 10 inches in parts of North Carolina and toward the southern Appalachians. "We have worked with meteorologists across this region to refine these numbers and confidence is building that over 2 feet of rainfall is expected," David Novak, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Weather Prediction Center, said late afternoon Wednesday. Portions of southeastern North Carolina are expected to be hit the hardest, and meteorologists are watching whether the brunt of the rainfall will also shift to Wilmington and areas in South Carolina, including Myrtle Beach. Meteorologists predicted several feet of rain would pound the Carolinas as Florence makes landfall in the early hours of Friday morning, and the coastal and inland communities are both in danger of flooding.įlorence will bring widespread rainfall amounting to 20 to 30 inches, and totals exceeding 40 inches in isolated areas, predicted the National Weather Service forecast office in Newport/Morehead City, North Carolina. Though Florence was downgraded to a Category 2 storm with lower wind speeds, expected rainfall totals remain at catastrophic levels. G8uUGrRyfK- National Weather Service September 13, 2018 Keep up with the latest forecast at, and obey orders from emergency management as this unfolds. This is just the beginning of a very long-duration, potentially-catastrophic flooding event well-inland. Rain bands from #Florence are already well inland.
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