ATL: DEBBY - Post-Tropical

[Sanibel]

As much as I want to boast about calling this, no convection equals no storm.

[ozonepete]

Debby is quite tenacious, refusing to be beaten down by the cold front it's still attached to. Will our strongest storms this season all be north of 35N?

That front is like gum on her shoe, lol.

Still won't give up the ghost. Must be something in the water up there.

[cycloneye]

8 PM EDT TWO


A LOW PRESSURE AREA...THE POST-TROPICAL REMNANTS OF DEBBY...IS
LOCATED ABOUT 170 MILES NORTH-NORTHEAST OF BERMUDA AND MOVING EAST-
NORTHEASTWARD AT ABOUT 20 MPH. ALTHOUGH THIS DISTURBANCE IS
PRODUCING GALE-FORCE WINDS SOUTHEAST OF THE CENTER...SHOWER ACTIVITY
IS MINIMAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN
UNFAVORABLE FOR RE-DEVELOPMENT TO OCCUR. THIS SYSTEM HAS A LOW
CHANCE...10 PERCENT...OF BECOMING A TROPICAL CYCLONE AGAIN DURING
THE NEXT 48 HOURS. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS LOW CAN BE FOUND
IN HIGH SEAS FORECASTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

[JonathanBelles]

Two more impacts from Debby this morning.

1) Be careful boating this weekend on Bay area and nature coast lakes. Manatees were able to swim in heightened to locations normally off limits to them. Three manatees have been located in Lake Tarpon, one of which has been relocated to the gulf. Other manatees may also be inland.

2) All turtle eggs on the west coast have been lost, sort of. All of the tags that generally mark turtle egg nests were either blown away or taken away by surge/high tide during Debby's onslaught. The state has no way to recover all of the nest locations until the nest hatch, if they hatch. With all of the surge from Debby, beach erosion took quite a bit of the sand that covers turtle eggs. Eggs are generally buried deep enough to be immune to the sun's heat, but with sand removed many of the eggs will likely perish due to the Florida heat. Fortunately, nesting season continues into August, so the outlook remains green for a normal season. If you see any eggs or any turtles, call Florida Fish and Wildlife.

[Blown Away]

^ GPS mark the turtle nests, that's SOP for our beaches??

[JonathanBelles]

^ GPS mark the turtle nests, that's SOP for our beaches??

According to FFW, any GPS monitoring devices that were in place were taken out to sea, and many nests are never marked.

[cycloneye]

7 deaths related to Debby in Florida

LIVE OAK, Fla. (AP) — Florida officials said Thursday that Tropical Storm Debby was responsible for seven deaths in the state.

State emergency operations spokeswoman Jessica Sims said that two people died in Pinellas County, including a 41-year-old woman caught in a riptide Wednesday at St. Pete Beach.

She was among eight people pulled from rip currents on St. Pete Beach on Wednesday. On Thursday morning, lifeguards on Clearwater Beach helped three people from the water who got caught in a rip current.

Storm-related deaths were also reported in Highlands, Pasco, Polk, Lake and Madison counties. They include a Highlands County woman who died in a tornado spawned by the storm on Sunday, as well as a 71-year-old man who suffered a heart attack and was found dead in flood waters outside his Indian Rocks Beach home in Pinellas County.

In addition, a South Carolina man disappeared Sunday off Alabama's Orange Beach in rough waters churned up by the storm.

Authorities said Wednesday they had suspended a five-day-old search for a 32-year-old Eric Pye of Summerville, S.C., after dozens of searchers using boats and sonar had failed to locate him.

The Orange Beach safety director, Melvin Shephard, told The Associated Press that accounts indicate Pye was wading near the beach's edge Sunday when the backwash of a large wave dragged him into the Gulf of Mexico. Debby was churning up 8- to 10-foot waves there at the time, he added.

Debby hovered in the Gulf of Mexico for days before slowly blowing across northern Florida this week; the storm dumped more than two feet of water in some parts.

On Thursday, Gov. Rick Scott traveled to some of the hardest-hit areas in Florida to survey flood damages. He told officials and some victims that he empathized with them.

"I grew up in the Midwest and the Missouri River used to flood," said Scott, who was raised in Kansas City. "You think about it as you go down and see the families who are devastated when their houses are under water."

Scott noted that the Suwannee River has yet to crest.

"There's more to come," he said.

Suwannee County Sheriff Tony Cameron said he hadn't seen so much flooding in Live Oak and surrounding areas since 1964, when he was 11 and Hurricane Dora flooded the small, north-central Florida community. Then, he helped his grandfather pump water out of the city.

"The problem we have right now is sink holes, that's our number one problem at this time," Cameron said Thursday afternoon. "We've got a lot of roads that are still under water. There are probably 300 cars scattered around the county sitting under water."

More than 150 people remained in shelters in Suwannee and Pasco counties on Thursday.

[cycloneye]

This is the official end for Debby.


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[AnnularCane]

Invest?

[JonathanBelles]

The impacts from Debby remain for many in Florida. In fact, one of Florida's largest roadways, the Suncoast Parkway, is closed today in Hernando County and has been since Debby. Areas of the Parkway in Pasco have reopened, but the Hernando portions will remain closed through at least the Holiday.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafe ... in/1238342

[JonathanBelles]