Barry formed on the first day of the Hurricane season...

Barry formed about 5PM Eastern Daylight Time...

It had been wallowing around as a low for a few days, funneling tropical weather towards the East Coast of the US.

Barry's first task was to dump a considerable amount of rain on Florida, which has been going through a drought for the last few months... the route seems to be taking it over the worst hit areas, which should bring relief to the region.

Here's a grahpic showing where storms forming in June where Barry is located went...

Barry quickly crossed Florida, primarily dumping much needed rain (although, not enough to bust the drought altogether).

Its route took it over Georgia and South Carolina

Barry went Extra Tropical shortly after crossing Florida.  As of 5 am Sunday, Barry's remnant low pressure center was well near Beaufort, South Carolina.

Florida Peninsula rainfall totals were generally between 1.5 to 4 inches, but locally as much as 5 to 7 inches. As Barry has worked northward there has been 3 to 6 inches of welcome rains in southeast Georgia. The heavy rain is slogging northward into South and North Carolina and will move quickly toward Virginia overnight.

Much needed drought relief will be Barry's positive legacy.

Barry did have some impacts. There was one tornado rated EF1 that hit Cutler Ridge near Miami on late Friday night that did structural roof damage to a home and a waterspout that came ashore in the Keys. Storms rolling around Barry did some tree damage in Hillsborough County just west of Tampa Bay with a person injured.

 

Monday saw Barry bearing down on New England...

When Barry became a Tropical Storm in the Gulf of Mexico Friday it was the earliest ever that we had a 'B' named storm in Tropical Storm naming history. The caveat, of course, is that it was not until recently that subtropical storms became named. Earlier this year for instance, Subtropical Storm Andrea made a brief appearance off the Carolina coast on May 9 and 10.

The heaviest of rain Monday will be found through New England as Barry continues to track northward. With over an inch of rainfall Monday in parts of eastern New England, there is a concern for some low-lying ponding of water. A storm system off to the west will pass through the Northeast Tuesday and Wednesday; therefore, it will take a few days before a large plume of drier air punches into the East.

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