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Tropical Storm Debby is drifting just offshore of the South Carolina coast. There are two dangerous parts to the storm.

Florida, the Southeast and the mid-Atlantic have all felt the wrath of Tropical Storm Debby, and now millions of people across the Northeast and New England are bracing for potentially life-threatening flooding as the deadly storm gets set to blast the waterlogged region with torrential rain late this week.

Tropical Storm Debby is expected to dump torrential rain along the Eastern Seaboard that could lead to catastrophic flooding, with rainfall amounts that could exceed 25 inches, the National Hurricane Center warns.

Many residents of Mendenhall Valley were unable to return home as the nearby Mendenhall River surged with glacial lake water and flooded their neighborhoods.

A terrifying situation unfolded off the coast of Florida over the weekend when winds from then-Hurricane Debby tore the sail off a boat, paralyzing the vessel in rough seas and prompting a rescue by the U.S. Coast Guard.

The center of Tropical Storm Debby is located near Savannah, Georgia, but is forecast to move over the warm Atlantic waters later Tuesday.

Officials with the San Bernardino County Fire Protection District said that at least four structures were damaged, and two homes were destroyed during the Edgehill Fire on Monday. Gusty winds and temperatures above 100 degrees helped the fire spread on the Little Mountain.

Steering currents between the deep tropics and the mid-latitudes can become weak and variable around 30 degrees north latitude. Recent cyclones, such as Debby in 2024, Florence in 2018, Harvey in 2017, and Fay in 2008, all became stationary or stalled within a few hundred miles of the latitude.

A representative for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection says that they were alerted to more than two dozen packages of cocaine that washed ashore the Florida Keys during Debby. The agency estimates the drugs have a street value of over one million dollars.