Tropical Storm Elsa is tracking toward the Mid-Atlantic: What it means for the D.C. area.
Heavy rain and strong winds Thursday night will probably be focused east of I-95, where tropical storm watches are in effect.
After Tropical Storm Elsa exits northern Florida on Wednesday, it will sweep up the East Coast through Friday, producing heavy rain and strong wind from southeast Georgia to eastern New England. The Washington and Baltimore region may experience a period of windswept rain Thursday night, but confidence is highest in stormy conditions just to the east, for areas adjacent to the Chesapeake Bay and over the Delmarva Peninsula.
The National Hurricane Center has posted a tropical storm watch from the Virginia Tidewater through Virginia’s Northern Neck and into Southern Maryland, including Calvert and St. Mary’s counties. The watch extends east over the Bay including all but the northern part of the Delmarva Peninsula.
Resort areas such as Virginia Beach, Ocean City, Fenwick, Bethany and Rehoboth are included in the watch zone. The watches also extend north, covering most of the New Jersey Shore, and south through the North Carolina beaches.
These watches could be upgraded to warnings Wednesday night or Thursday morning.
Although the Hurricane Center projects Elsa will weaken to a depression by Thursday morning when it’s over South Carolina, it may regain tropical-storm strength as it nears the Mid-Atlantic coastal waters Thursday night into early Friday.
The worst weather in the Mid-Atlantic is anticipated to start Thursday afternoon in southeastern Virginia, before reaching the Northern Neck, Southern Maryland and the southern Delmarva on Thursday evening and passing over the central Delmarva on Thursday night. Rain and wind should quickly exit the region as Elsa tracks east of New Jersey by Friday morning.
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