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Tropical Storm Cristobal: Photos from Myrtle Beach

Posted Jul19, 2008 at 11:53 PM

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Rain Yancey's rainbow

Senior editor Dwayne Yancey is the one who has interviewed me by phone during each of the last two May storm chase trips, meticulously putting together photos into slideshow packages this past May. Despite numerous other duties, he put a lot of time and energy into making our storm chase packages what they are. Well, this weekend, we have reversed roles. Dwayne and his family are the storm chasers of sorts, catching up to some of the outer bands of Tropical Storm Cristobal on a Myrtle Beach vacation, while I am back in Roanoke posting the images his teen-aged kids have taken along the coast.
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Cristobal's feeder bands over harbor. Courtesy of Keith Yancey

The inset photo above was taken by Dwayne's daughter Rain Yancey (that's a Weather Journal-worthy name for sure) and shows a rainbow over North Myrtle Beach, S.C. (Click here for a closer look.) And while we're at it, click here for another photo from Rain, showing looming storm clouds over the shore as one of Cristobal's feeder band moves overhead. (I tracked this on radar after Dwayne called me). At left is a photo by Rain's younger brother Keith Yancey, showing dark clouds over a harbor in North Myrtle Beach ... click here for a bigger look.

You can see many more photos of Cristobal on the coast from the Yanceys via the Botetourt View blog.

As you can see from these photos, there's not much of a panic going on related to Cristobal. It's just spun out a few gusty showers along the coast. The Carolinas could really use more rain than this storm is likely to produce.

Cristobal will move close to North Carolina's Outer banks today as it continues moving northeastward. It may slowly increase in intensity, but it remains unlikely that it will become a hurricane. You can follow the latest on the National Hurricane Center Web site.

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[July 20, 2008 4:26 PM]

Dwayne Yancey : →http://www.blogs.roanoke.com/botetourtview
We can report that today (Sunday) the skies are perfectly blue, with a few puffy white clouds -- and no sign of meteorlogicial disturbances of any sort.
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