Hourplus. And to the top of the map, its now arriving in the jacksonville area ocala to gainesville, Flagler Beach area, daytona beach, new smyrna. Theyre getting the wind off the water. And you still have a little storm surge to go. So almost the entire peninsula from the keys to jacksonville right now is getting the Tropical Storm force winds. Where we still can get the hurricane gusts and we just had that gust to 70 at the Atlanta International airport. Its almost up to hurricane, the hurricane gust. But not quite. This entire area of red is still where the power is either out or still going out and thats shifting north with the storm. Now more Power Outages around tampa and the i4 corridor. Those people were watching and now not able to as much. Heres whats left of the northern eye. Gusts to 74. Still at 64. Now were not going to get with the center of the storm almost heading towards in between orlando and tampa, were not going to get those high gusts in tampa and the sarasota are
Linda to the west of wilmington, North Carolina, moving very slowly off towards west the general direction. Going to continue now for the next couple of days and heres our forecast with the center at the x located midland. 24, 36, 48, thats where the center is forecast to be. Very slow motion the next few days. Thats what weve been saying for several days. Because of that, we have a very serious rainfall threat and linda. We can take a look at what weve seen so far. This is a map to date from florence. We can see that there are a couple of pockets already down near wilmington and up near newberry, morehead city, up near 20 inches of rain. Eastern carolina 510 inches, the rain is going to be spreading to the west, 23 inches as far as the west of lumberton North Carolina. Some of the rain is spreading into South Carolina right now. The pattern will grow to the west the next couple of days. By the time thats all through, we are still looking at totals that can be we are already seeing as
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