CHARLESTON — Local officials are prepping ahead of forecasts calling for a wet weekend and potential impacts from an approaching tropical disturbance.

The National Weather Service is monitoring a storm just east of Cuba that forecasters give an 80 percent chance of forming into a tropical depression within the next 48 hours, and a 90 percent chance of developing into a named storm over the next seven days.

"There is a lot of uncertainty though," Daniel Flessas, an emergency management specialist for the city of Charleston. He provided a briefing for City Council during a Sept. 26 meeting based on the latest information from the National Weather Service.

"Prepare now,” he said. “Uncertainty doesn't mean don't prepare."

Ahead of any impacts from a potential storm, separate forecasts ca

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