Stormy weather is impacting Florida and moving into Georgia and South Carolina over the next couple of days, but good news for Polk County is we’ll barely notice any of it happening.
Forecasters are calling for a historic rain event in South and Coastal Georgia as Hurricane Debby moves inland after it made landfall this morning near Florida’s Big Bend, bringing life-threatening storm surge and gusting winds ashore that is battering a coastline already plagued by storm damage from years past.
The storm is expected to slow down as it moves over land and back toward the east coast area of the Lowcountry in South Carolina. Where it goes from there is likely northward into North Carolina, where it’ll begin to break up into a tropical depression. However it’ll be days before that happens, and forecasters are worried that a stall as it moves into Coastal Georgia and South Carolina between Tuesday and Saturday that at least 30 inches of rain is going to fall over the region, and is predicted to cause real flooding issues for both states. Savannah, Hilton Head and Charleston are all under the threat of rising waters from the storm’s stall.
Hurricane Idalia hit in the same region of Florida’s Big Bend back in 2023.
So far, no injuries or deaths have been reported since landfall was made around 7 a.m.
Hot weather is in store for Polk County today instead of the threat of tropical systems.
Forecaster in Peachtree City are putting the high up to 92 on the day, with a heat index up to 100 degrees for Polk County. Temperatures are expected to remain in the 90s range heading into later this week, when students head back to class for the 2024-25 Academic Year at Polk School District.
Look for the thermometer to dip slightly into the upper 80s with chances of rain for the forthcoming weekend.
