Dorian Not Getting Close Enough to Affect Northeast Georgia

Dorian is now skirting the coast from Charlotte to Wilmington, NC but we can expect continued sunshine in our area as the storm moves north today and tomorrow.

Meteorologist Harry Gerepetritis with the National Weather Service in Greenville-Spartanburg tells WLHR News the most we might see today from Dorian are some gusty winds.

“At this point those winds aren’t expected to pose any hazard to Lavonia,” he said. “We shouldn’t be looking at any rain. We’re going to be so far to the west of that that it shouldn’t affect you.”

Early Wednesday, Governor Brian P. Kemp issued an Executive Order expanding the State of Emergency to include Appling, Bacon, Bulloch, Clinch, Echols, Evans, Screven, Tattnall, and Ware Counties.

Currently, there are twenty-one Georgia counties along the coast and in south Georgia under a State of Emergency declaration.

The National Weather Service is calling for life-threatening storm surges mainly along the Carolina coast line to continue today and then move into Virginia and the Southern Chesapeake Bay by tonight.

Dorian is expected to continue as a major storm as it makes its way up the coast to Maine by the weekend.

Meantime, the National Hurricane Center is watching another tropical storm that has formed in the Atlantic.

Tropical Storm Gabrielle is gaining strength in the Eastern Atlantic, but is expected to turn north before it reaches the Caribbean or the U.S.