Tropical Storm Chantal causes up to $6 billion in damage
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A tropical storm watch stretches along the coast from Edisto Beach, S.C., to the South Santee River. The hurricane center said those elsewhere along the southeast coast of the United States should also keep an eye on Chantal. Chantal is expected to track slowly to the north and then northwest and move onshore in South Carolina by Sunday morning.
AccuWeather forecasters are keeping an eye on an area close to Florida which shows some potential for tropical development July 15-18.
After Tropical Storm Chantal made landfall in South Carolina over the Fourth of July weekend, the tropics are now quiet. Well, sort of. Chantal is now a post-tropical cyclone, according to the last advisory issued by the National Hurricane Center at 11 a.m. ET.
Orange County and nearby areas experienced between five and nine inches of rainfall, causing significant flooding as Chantal moved through.
On the heels of Tropical Depression Chantal, climatologists are warning that storms like it could become more common.
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