A tropical disturbance about 100 miles south of west-central Cuba is close to tropical depression strength, and is bringing torrential rains all across the Western Caribbean. This disturbance is expected to develop into a tropical depression later today, and could be a 50-mph tropical storm when it moves over Cuba, South Florida, and the western Bahamas on Wednesday. The storm is expected to bring 4 – 8 inches of rain to coastal North Carolina late this week, including in Wilmington. That city had 10.33 inches of rain yesterday, its 2nd greatest daily rainfall in history, so the new storm is likely to cause serious flooding when it arrives.
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