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A powerful storm system, known as Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight, swept through coastal North Carolina on Monday, bringing with it torrential downpours and strong winds.
A coastal low, previously labeled Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight, will continue to slowly move north across the Carolinas towards the mid-Atlantic over the next day or so and bring with it the potential for flooding.
Officials in Carolina Beach are urging residents to stay home as the town deals with ongoing flooding. The town has received more than 15 inches of rain since midnight Monday.
As Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight continues its approach toward the Carolina coast, conditions are deteriorating. Both flooding and strong winds have been reported.
The non-tropical disturbance offshore of Myrtle Beach is close to forming into a tropical storm, but it's still involved with a front and is being stretched out by hostile upper winds. It's called Potential Tropical Cyclone EIGHT, which just means that it could still develop into a tropical system before it makes landfall later today.
Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight formed off the Southeast U.S. coast on Sunday and is expected to become Tropical Storm Helene early this week.
Charged particles crashing into Earth are expected to create strong solar storm conditions early Monday morning, prompting a Geomagnetic Storm Watch as the Northern Lights could be visible farther south than usual.
Flooding in central Europe has led to at least seven deaths since Saturday. According to Reuters, a firefighter in Austria and a man in Poland died from the flooding Sunday. Flooding killed five other people in Romania over the weekend.
The SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico in the pre-dawn hours Sunday morning after a five-day mission that included the first-ever private spacewalk.
Gray skies, gusty winds and periods of rain impact coastal sections of South and North Carolina as a low-pressure center develops offshore. The low has non-tropical origins but could develop into a tropical system late today or tomorrow before making landfall, probably in North Carolina.