ORLANDO, Fla. — Chances are good this week the 2020 hurricane season will get its sixth tropical system.
The National Hurricane Center continues to track an area of low pressure that is now located inland near the South Carolina coast that continues to dump heavy rain over portions of the southeastern United States.
Forecasters say the low pressure will move northeast near or just offshore of the North Carolina Outer Banks on Thursday, then turn north-northeast while over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the mid-Atlantic on Friday where the waters could help churn it into the a tropical depression.
The system is expected to continue to dump heavy rainfall that could cause flash flooding across eastern North Carolina, the coastal mid-Atlantic and southern New England, and produce gusty winds during the next few days, whether it becomes tropical or not, forecasters said.