Monday, May 21,2012
By: Carrie Van Brunt-Wiley
Forecasters now say they expect Tropical Storm Alberto not to make landfall on the East Coast, avoiding the potential home insurance claims which might have come from the early start to this year's hurricane season.
While it had been originally predicted to cross over parts of the Carolinas, the latest projections from the National Weather Service show the storm staying offshore as it slowly moves northeast and continues to weaken into a tropical depression.
"It's moving very slowly," meteorologist Brett Cimbora of the National Weather Service in Charleston told Reuters. "It likes the warmer waters of the Gulf Stream. It's going to try to hug that."
The storm's winds have already weakened to roughly 40 miles per hour from measurements of 50 recorded over the weekend. However, even though it will stay offshore, officials said there could still be coastal flooding in some areas.
While hurricane season doesn't officially begin until June, storms before then are not unusual. Officials said that Alberto was the earliest storm seen in nine years.
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