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This NOAA satellite image taken at 2:09 p.m. EST on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025, shows Tropical Storm Priscilla off the western coast of Mexico in the eastern Pacific Ocean. (NOAA via AP)
MIAMI – A storm without a name and unusual king tides were causing some flooding on the Carolina coast early Friday as tropical storms churned in the Atlantic and along Mexico's Pacific coast.
About a dozen streets were already flooded in Charleston, South Carolina, and the city offered free parking in some garages. A high tide of 8.5 feet (2.6 meters) was forecast Friday morning, which would be the 13th highest in more than a century of recorded data in Charleston Harbor.
The unnamed coastal storm and unusually high king tides, when the moon is closer than usual to the Earth, threatened to bring