Isaias skirts Florida coast, bringing heavy rain and winds

A man stands on the beach in Deerfield Beach, Florida.
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Tropical Storm Isaias is hovering off the coast of Florida, and is expected to dump up to six inches of rain over parts of the state.

As it hit the Bahamas on Saturday evening, Isaias was downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm, but the National Hurricane Center on Sunday evening said the storm is "expected to be near hurricane strength when it reaches the coast of northern South Carolina and southern North Carolina Monday night," and flash and urban flooding will be likely in the "eastern Carolinas and mid-Atlantic."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.