Tammy Pounds Georgia Coast; Takes Aim at Atlanta
Tropical storm Tammy came ashore about 7 PM Wednesday near Mayport, Florida, just south of the Georgia state line. With winds around 40 MPH, she remains a tropical storm whose center is located near Tifton, Georgia.
At the risk of sounding like Jim Cantore of the Weather Channel, I was able to see the storm close-up having traveled to Jekyll Island on Wednesday. After seeing a number of rain bands (and quite a bit of wind) on the way down here, the worst of the rain started around 6 PM, as lightning struck, and the winds picked up.
Driving along Beachview Drive around 7 PM, there was considerable ponding of water, and it was nearly raining sideways. By about 8:30 PM, the rain had stopped, at least temporarily, as the center of the storm began to move away. You could still see a lot of water on the roads, an in yards and the golf courses. The bellman at the hotel reported that along I-95, many cars and trucks had gone off the road due to the high winds and water. The weather service reported 4.7 inches of rain at St. Simons on Wednesday. The rain continues this morning, although with the worst of the storm to the north and east of the center, I hope that I’ll be able to get out on the golf course sometime today.
The picture above is of Tammy around 10 AM on Wednesday morning.
What’s in store for the Atlanta area? Fortunately, a break in the dry weather that we’ve seen for the last month. The outer edges of Tammy arrived late last evening, and the storm could bring up to two inches of rain by the time the storm exits on Friday night.
The weather for next week remains unsettled. The country in the midst of switching between the summer and winter weather patterns, as evidenced by the cooler weather next week, and much cooler weather this week in the Midwest - St. Louis will be 25 degrees cooler today than yesterday. There is still a chance of more tropical weather like Tammy sometime late next week.
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