And on cue, the first tropical storm of the season makes its way up the coast.
The latest forecast discussion includes some notes about what to expect along the coast. Wilmington is expecting heavy rain tonight and Sunday.
A flood watch is already on.
Also, here’s the June outlook from Jeff Masters.
And then there’s this not-so-cheery outlook on a Cat 5’s impact on the Outer Banks. Note the phrase Pamlico Bay.
Riggs said such a storm would break the chain of long, narrow islands into a perforated series of many smaller spots of sand. Instead of Pamlico Sound to the west, sailors would find Pamlico Bay. Where Alligator River now cuts into the mainland, the ocean will take over to create Alligator Sound.
Yet North Carolina’s Division of Emergency Management estimates that, even if a Category 5 hurricane turns toward the Outer Banks, several hundred defiant homeowners will try to ride the storm. Many will die as the violent weather destroys structures across the islands and carves several new inlets where land now stands up from the sea, said Orrin Pilkey, a professor emeritus of geology at Duke University.
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