Debby brought heavy rain and flooding to Florida’s Gulf Coast after making landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on Monday, August 5. Drone footage, captured by Brier Media, shows extensive flooding in Sarasota, Florida. Debby was downgraded to a tropical storm several hours after making landfall. Clean-up efforts continued in Sarasota on Thursday, with city officials offering recovery resources including storm debris pickup services. Credit: Brier Media via Storyful

Tropical Storm Debby is now forecast to rapidly intensify into a hurricane before it makes landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region and bring potentially historic amounts of rainfall to parts of the Southeast, due to near-record warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico.

Hurricane Nicole made landfall overnight in Florida on Nov. 10, 2022. NOAA's GOES-East captured imagery of the Nicole, which has been downgraded to a tropical storm. Credit: CIRA / NOAA