AccuWeather's Bernie Rayno warns of a tropical rain and windstorm that is expected to churn across the U.S. East Coast, bringing hazardous coastal flooding, high winds, rough surf and beach erosion.
00:00Tropical wind and rainstorm this weekend from the Carolinas to the Jersey Shore.
00:06The ingredients begin Thursday into Friday as a frontal boundary comes south and stalls across southern Georgia and the northern Florida Peninsula.
00:14Then watch energy come southward, form the storm along that front, and then the storm tracks off the Georgia and North Carolina coasts,
00:24where we'll be tracking over water temperatures around 80 degrees.
00:28So there's going to be a tropical element to this storm.
00:31And in fact, the storm will then intensify this weekend.
00:35Now, the exact storm track will dictate how bad the storm is going to be along the coast.
00:40But right now, we think it's going to be close enough to the coast and it strengthens enough that we're going to be looking at extensive coastal damage, I'm afraid,
00:48from the Outer Banks all the way toward the Jersey Shore.
00:51And don't forget, because the storm is so slow moving, there's going to be a prolonged, damaging wind gusts out of the north-northeast, wind gusts 30 to 60 miles per hour.
01:02And on top of that, northeasterly, don't forget, we have the king tides that will make the coastal flooding even worse.
01:09When everything is all said and done by Monday, as the storm finally pulls away, we could be looking at billions of dollars in damage and economic loss.
01:18Let's hope the storm stays farther out to sea.
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