Early Saturday, Tropical Storm Ophelia makes landfall in North Carolina, generating heavy rain and winds that have battered the state, meteorologists reported.
He National Hurricane Center (NHC) noted that the tropical storm threatens “life-threatening” flooding.
“Ophelia hit the coast near Emerald Isle in North Carolina with maximum sustained winds of 70 miles per hour shortly after 6:20 am,” the NHC said in its X account.
The hurricane center detailed that what had been a “potential tropical cyclone” strengthened into Tropical Storm Ophelia around 2:00 pm on Friday in the Atlantic Ocean.
The effects of Ophelia
As of Saturday morning, more than 41,000 people were without power in North Carolina, and about 19,000 in Virginia, according to the energy monitoring site poweroutage.us.
The effects of Storm Ophelia were already being felt on Friday in North Carolina and Virginia, as it approached landfall, with rising coastal waters, winds and rain, meteorologists said.
The storm is expected to generate “potentially damaging winds, dangerous storm surge, and flash flooding” in eastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, the NHC said in a bulletin.
In this sense, a hurricane warning was issued for the eastern coast of North Carolina, from north of Surf City to Ocracoke Inlet.
The governor’s response
Faced with the climate emergency, Roy Cooper, governor of North Carolina; Glenn Youngking, Governor of Virginia, and Wes Moore, Governor of Maryland Emergency declarations allow for state aid and other assistance.
The National Weather Service in Wakefield, Virginia, said there were wind gusts of up to 50 miles per hour as the storm approached.
North Carolina’s Coastal Plain region could receive 3 to 5 inches of rain, and “The Triangle,” which includes Chapel Hill, could receive 2 inches, according to the agency.
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