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 has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.