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travel verb ( MAKE JOURNEY )

• I like to travel but, then again, I'm very fond of my home .
• It's often quicker to travel across country and avoid the major roads altogether .
• Passengers without proper documentation will not be allowed to travel.
• The elderly travel free on public transport .
• We like to travel in the autumn when there are fewer tourists .
• The tragedy is that cultures don't always travel well, and few immigrant groups can sustain their culture over the long term .
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travel verb ( MOVE )

• The objects travel in elliptical orbits .
• In 1947, a pilot flying over the Cascades saw nine metallic flying objects travelling at an estimated 1,200 miles per hour .
• The elevator travelled smoothly upward .
• White light separates out into its component wavelengths when travelling through a prism .
• As the material travels through the winding machine , excess liquid is squeezed out by rollers .
• Lead dust travels easily from hands to mouth and can't be seen .
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• kinetic energy
• repair to somewhere

travel verb ( BREAK RULE )

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travel noun ( ACTIVITY )

• They offer a 10 percent discount on rail travel for students .
• The price includes travel and accommodation but meals are extra .
• His work provided him with the opportunity for a lot of foreign travel.
• The popular myth is that air travel is more dangerous than travel by car or bus .
• Passes are available for one month's unlimited travel within Europe .
• break-journey
• circumnavigation

travel noun ( MOVEMENT OF OBJECT )

• It can be difficult to predict the travel of smoke from smouldering fires .
• The travel of the bullets and blood spatter showed that he was lying on the ground on his side when he was shot .
• This seemed to prove that light has a finite speed of travel.
• Striking the ball when the clubhead is already past the lowest point of its travel gives a slight overspin.
• The actuator then rotates its output shaft to the extremes of its travel.
• bring someone on
• go the distance idiom
• non-competitor
• park the bus idiom
• play big idiom
• step/move up a gear idiom

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About half of US state AGs went on France trip sponsored by group with lobbyist and corporate funds

A soldier walks past crosses and flags at an US cemetery near Colleville-sur-Mer Normandy, Thursday, June 6, 2024. World War II veterans from across the United States as well as Britain and Canada are in Normandy this week to mark 80 years since the D-Day landings that helped lead to Hitler’s defeat. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

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About half the U.S. state attorneys general traveled to France in a trip cosponsored by a group mostly funded by companies, including some under scrutiny of the top state lawyers.

Attorneys general are among the most visible officials in state governments and the job can be a launching pad to the world stage. Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, previously held the post in California.

Joining together gives AGs a chance to share concerns, develop bonds and strategies and talk with officials in other countries. The trips can be posh and provide opportunities for company lobbyists to rub elbows with them. Companies that have picked up the bill and sent representatives in recent years have been from the pharmaceutical, auto, financial, online gaming and tech industries, among others.

Organizers said this summer’s trip is “solely focused on commemorating and paying tribute to the achievements and sacrifices of those who fought in Normandy,” even though they are taking place nearly two months after the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion on June 6, which was commemorated by a gathering of world leaders.

The Attorney General Alliance, known as AGA cosponsored the trip to France with the National Association of Attorneys General, a century-old group. AGA would not provide dates for the event, but one AG said it was set for July 29 to Aug. 3.

The trip illuminates how corporate lawyers and lobbyists can gain access to officials who regulate their businesses with help from the Attorney General Alliance, one of the groups behind the event.

“Lobbyists essentially fund these trips,” said Christopher Toth, a former National Associations of Attorneys General executive director. “They funnel the money through AGA, and then that insulates the AGs from being criticized that they’re taking money from lobbyists.”

It also shields them from criticism that they are traveling abroad on taxpayers’ dime.

The AGA said 26 attorneys general were going on the trip. The nonprofit group said the Olympics were not on the itinerary, though the marquee international athletic competitions coincided with it. In 2022, the group sponsored a trip to Qatar in time for the FIFA World Cup soccer games, which some AGs attended.

The group said it would not make public the 2024 schedule or exactly which AGs were attending in France because of security concerns.

“This event, like all others, was scheduled based on availability of attorneys general and hotel & conference space,” Tania Maestas, an AGA lawyer, said in an email.

Maestas declined to answer whether any of the corporate sponsors were giving attorneys general tickets to Olympic games.

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, a Democrat, said she would be attending an Olympic soccer game in addition to the Normandy events and that the tickets, and a few days of a vacation in France with her husband, would be at her expense.

Other AGs said they would not attend the games or ignored queries from The Associated Press.

Attorneys general are the chief government lawyers in their states. All of them have roles in consumer protection and many in law enforcement. They are elected in 43 states and appointed in the other seven.

A big shift in the job began in the 1990s when the states banded together to sue the tobacco industry over dangers caused by smoking. The deal opened the door for other huge multistate lawsuits and settlements over opioids , failing car airbags and other consumer protection issues.

That use of the office — ensuring corporate accountability — gave rise to other developments. Now, some major law firms have departments specializing in representing companies that come under the scrutiny of AGs.

Those departments, which frequently employ former AGs or their deputies, have all the motivation to lobby people in the job — as do the companies they represent.

The AGA was originally known as the Conference of Western Attorneys General. It expanded its core topics from largely regional concerns such as water resources and challenges facing Native American communities to a broader range of issues and in 2019 created the nationwide group.

The group’s tax filings show it both brought in and spent about $10 million from July 2022 through June 2023. More than $6 million in expenses were on travel, conferences and meetings and events. Much of the organization’s revenue has come in the form of sponsorships.

While the tax filings do not list the donors, an AGA brochure from 2023, provided by a lawyer specializing in AG practice who requested anonymity because of fear of professional retribution, shows how it works: Corporate sponsors could send more people to AGA events by contributing more money. For instance, $20,000 contributors could have three seats at events during the year. Those who gave $150,000 could have 30. More than 200 companies were listed as sponsors at various levels.

The AGA did not respond to questions about the brochure.

“With the AGA, you have these regulated industries outright giving money to the organization,” said Paul Nolette, a Marquette University political scientist who studies AGs.

Brian Frosh, a Democrat who served as Maryland’s attorney general from 2015 until last year, said he recalled attending just one or two of the group’s dinners early in his time in office but did not attend any of the larger events, which have included international trips to China, Morocco, Ireland and elsewhere.

“The dinners that I went to, you would sit next to a lobbyist for a different interest,” Frosh said. “And then you’d get up and move to another table. I didn’t find that to be enjoyable or educational.”

A 2021 version of the AGA publication shows two companies contributed at least $500,000 that year: Amazon and Pfizer.

Both have come under scrutiny from AGs. Last year, 17 attorneys general joined with the Federal Trade Commission to sue Amazon , claiming the online retailer inflated prices and overcharged sellers.

Drugmaker Pfizer has faced legal action from AGs on multiple fronts. Texas AG Ken Paxton sued last year, claiming the company misrepresented the effectiveness of its COVID-19 vaccines and tried to censor public discourse about it. Pfizer also has been a target of multiple AG lawsuits over drug prices.

Colin Provost, an associate professor of public policy at University College London who studies U.S. state AGs, said events where they mingle with lobbyists don’t necessarily help companies get the outcomes they hope for.

“The optics are often not good,” he said. “In terms of actually proving that this has sort of a corrupting influence, that’s harder to do.”

Associated Press reporters from around the U.S. contributed to this article.

This article has been updated to correct that the National Association of Attorneys General and the Attorney General Alliance are different groups and that Christopher Toth was the executive director of NAAG, not AGA.

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LCD, IPS, OLED, and Quantum Dots: All the Confusing Display Terms, Explained

Shopping for a monitor can be overwhelming if you’re not already familiar with the cornucopia of acronyms used to describe different display types: LCD, IPS, OLED, QD-OLED, Mini-LED, OCD, BPD, QED, BBQ. It’s … a lot. The type of screen you get can have a huge impact on the quality of your display, so we’re here to break through the noise.

There are a lot of factors that go into picking a good monitor. What resolution does it have? How large is it? Is it an ultrawide ? What is its refresh rate ? These are all important factors, but arguably the most important is what type of display technology the monitor uses.

Interested in learning more about displays? Check out our lists of the Best Computer Monitors and Best TVs , as well as our guides on How To Buy A TV and How To Upgrade Your Home Theater .

First, a Few Definitions

There are a lot of confusing terms that get thrown around when discussing display technology—and it doesn’t help that manufacturers often introduce new jargon to aid marketing. Before we get to the different displays you can find, there are a few terms that are helpful to define first:

• Local Dimming: Traditional LCD monitors typically use an array of LED backlights behind the pixels in the display, but this can lead to an image being brighter than necessary in dark areas. Local dimming monitors aim to fix this problem by using smaller clusters of LED backlights that can be turned on or dimmed separately, so bright parts of an image can be lit up while darker parts stay dim.
• Viewing Angle: While monitors are generally designed to look their best when you look at them straight-on, there can be a lot of variance when you’re watching from the side. Viewing angle refers to how off-center a viewer can be while still being able to see the image clearly.
• Color Space/Color Gamut: Every display can only reproduce a subset of all the colors the human eye can see. This subset is referred to as a color gamut (sometimes also referred to as “color space”). The most common color space is sRGB, though you’ll often see DCI-P3 , which covers more color than sRGB.
• Quantum Dot: The backlight in most displays is usually a white light that then passes through a filter to produce red, green, and blue wavelengths. This is a lossy process that can produce more dull colors. Quantum dot displays use blue LEDs as a backlight that strike nanocrystals (the “quantum dots”), causing them to emit red or green light. For blue colors, the backlight simply passes through directly. This setup produces richer colors than typical LCD screens.
• High Dynamic Range (or HDR): The single best advancement in TVs over the last decade (in my opinion) is HDR. Where older televisions could reproduce around 16.7 million colors, HDR TVs can pull off over a billion. There are several different methods of implementing HDR including HDR10, HDR10+, and Dolby Vision. You can read our guide to these terms if you want to know more, but for simplicity: Dolby Vision is the best option right now, but any HDR is better than none.

With all that in mind, we can start talking about the different types of displays you’ll see when shopping for a new monitor .

LCD: The Baseline

Liquid crystal displays (LCD), as their name implies, use an array of liquid crystals to produce colored light. These panels require some kind of backlight to shine white light through the liquid crystal array. Then, an electric current is applied to the liquid crystals, which either block or allow red, green, or blue wavelengths of light to pass through.

The earliest LCD displays were twisted nematic (TN) panels. The crystals are arranged in a twisted, helical configuration. While twisted, they allow light to pass through, but when they’re activated, the crystals untwist and block the backlight. Combined with a color filter over subpixels, this process produces all the wavelengths necessary for color images.

The upside of this tech is that LCD panels are relatively cheap to produce, can get bright enough to be seen even in broad daylight, and aren’t very susceptible to burn-in or degrading over time. However, this sometimes comes at the expense of color accuracy, and worse viewing angles. But in recent years, there have been improvements to the LCD process.

IPS: LCD Done Better

Some more recent LCD displays use a slightly different technology called in-plane switching (or IPS). In panels like this, the liquid crystals aren’t twisted, but instead run parallel to the panel, in a horizontal orientation. Rather than allowing light through by default, these crystals block light until they’re activated, at which point the crystals rotate to allow the backlight to pass through.

The advantage of IPS panels is that they get better viewing angles than older TN configurations, and are capable of more accurately reproducing colors. It’s so effective that when reviewing laptops like the Razer Blade 14 ( 8/10, WIRED Recommends ), we’ve been impressed with incredible picture quality, even when compared to other, more expensive display types. Not too long ago, LCD panels struggled to compete with more expensive display tech, but IPS has helped keep LCD displays in the running.

VA: Higher Contrast LCDs

Another modern variation on LCD monitors, vertical alignment (or VA) panels are similar to IPS, except that their crystals are arranged in a vertical orientation, rather than the horizontal configuration in IPS panels. The advantage of this arrangement is that more of the backlight can be blocked.

A huge part of the downside to LCD displays is that even when crystals block the backlight, there’s always going to be some amount of light that bleeds through. This is why, even when your LCD monitor is displaying a completely black image, it appears more like a dim gray. By blocking more of the backlight, VA panels can achieve greater contrast by making dark parts of the image darker, while still maintaining the brightness of lighter parts.

This tech comes at the expense of lower response times and more shallow viewing angles, which is why it’s less common than IPS. They’re also usually a little more expensive than IPS panels, so if contrast is important to you, you might expect to pay more for it.

Mini-LED: Local Dimming on a Smaller Scale

The backlights on most LCD displays are usually lit up across the entire screen, but TVs found a way to get better contrast by introducing local dimming. The only problem is that creating an array of backlights that could be controlled independently was difficult to scale down to smaller screens.

Enter Mini-LED. Mini-LEDs are smaller than typical LED backlights (around 200 microns ), which means that display manufacturers can fit a lot more into a smaller space. To the tune of thousands of local dimming zones in laptop and tablet displays. Strictly speaking, Mini-LED is a backlight technology and can be combined with several different types of LCD panels, but it will improve contrast and black levels on any panel it’s used in.

OLED: The Holy Grail of Black Levels

One of the few alternatives to liquid crystals are organic light emitting diodes (or OLED). These panels use pixels that emit their own light, avoiding the need for a backlight. Since each pixel can emit its own light, there’s no extra light bleed in dark parts of the image. The black levels on OLED panels are effectively infinite, since any pixel that isn’t activated is functionally the same as when the display is turned off.

Since there are no backlights involved, OLED panels are incredibly good at producing high-contrast images and accurately reproducing color. However, unlike LCD displays, they’re more prone to burn-in. There also aren’t many companies manufacturing these panels. In fact, the majority of OLED panels are produced by one manufacturer: LG .

This has made OLED panels more expensive than typical LCD displays, though they’ve gotten down to more reasonable prices in recent years. Still, if you want to get the best possible picture, you’re likely to run into OLED panels, and they’re likely to come at a premium versus comparable LCD screens.

Micro-LED: The Brightest, Darkest LED

Micro-LED panels are the newest type of LED displays. What sets them apart is that individual pixels have their own dedicated backlight. This makes them similar to OLED displays, in that they can achieve true black levels, since only the pixels that are needed for a picture are turned on. What sets it apart, however, is how bright it can get.

OLED panels often struggle to reach the same brightness levels as other types of displays (though there are advancements in that area as well, more on that below). Micro-LED panels, however, can reach brightness levels of several thousand nits. The contrast between effectively perfect black levels, and such high brightness, results in strikingly vivid picture quality. Since they're based on LED tech, they're also much less sensitive to burn-in than OLED.

The only problem is that, for right now at least, Micro-LED is prohibitively expensive and limited to only the largest, most unwieldy displays. It will probably be at least a few years before the “micro” in Micro-LED is small (and cheap) enough to power a normal-sized TV in your living room without costing as much as the house it's in.

QD OLED and WOLED: Brighter OLED

Quantum dot OLEDs (or QD-OLED) are a relatively new entry into the display scene from Samsung. While OLEDs emit their own light, they still need to use filters to produce red, green, and blue wavelengths. Typical OLEDs use a white subpixel to produce that light, increasing the brightness from each pixel.

Similar to other quantum dot displays, QD-OLED uses blue OLEDs as a light source that then strikes quantum dots to generate the red and green light necessary to produce a full-color image. This approach marries the benefits of OLED (no need for a separate backlight, high-contrast images) with the advantages of quantum dots (less light lost while passing through filters, more direct control over color precision).

Recent displays that use QD-OLED are among some of the prettiest panels we’ve ever tested here at WIRED. For example, the Samsung S95C ( 8/10, WIRED Recommends ) blew away WIRED senior editor Parker Hall, with its perfect black levels, vibrant colors, and wide viewing angles.

WOLED is a similar technology that is also aimed at making things brighter, but comes with a white OLED layer as well. This is used in high-end models from LG like the new C4 ( 9/10, WIRED Recommends ) to achieve peak brightness well over 1000 nits.

Since QD-OLED and WOLED panels are relatively new, displays using them are likely to be on the more expensive side for now, but you’ll likely be hard-pressed to find better image quality on monitors without them.

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World Traveler vs Well Traveled: What Does It All Mean?

You’ve probably heard the terms “world traveler” and “well traveled” before but what exactly do they mean?

Are these two terms synonymous or are there meaningful differences between them? And are you a world traveler or well traveled?

In this article, I’ll also share some of my own thoughts on what these terms mean and why they may or may not be important.

What does it mean to be a “world traveler?”

What it means to be a world traveler will likely differ based on your personal travels and exposure to other travelers.

To someone who has never ventured outside of their home country (or perhaps even their home state), a world traveler could look like someone who has visited a few countries in Europe, Asia, and perhaps an additional continent or two.

To a more experienced traveler, a world traveler might be someone who has visited 50+ or even 100+ countries.

So world traveler status is obviously very subjective and you will not find one universally agreed-upon threshold for countries visited in order to be a world traveler.

When I think about what a world traveler is, I think about somebody who has visited a lot of countries but more importantly explored diverse regions of the world.

Europe has nearly 30 countries and so you can spend a lot of time traveling to various closely connected countries in Europe and rack up a pretty impressive country count even over one summer.

There are a lot of unique and distinct cultures within Europe and so traveling through that continent would definitely give you a vast array of cultural experiences.

However, some countries like the Netherlands and Belgium or Portugal and Spain are very similar. In other words, if you wanted to travel between these countries, the non-language adjustment you would have to make would be minimal.

That’s why to me in order to be a world traveler you need to have experience in many different regions of the world.

But how should you define a region?

Lots of people think about being a world traveler in terms of how many continents they have visited so that could be one way to define a region.

For example, someone might argue that you should visit six of the habitable continents before you are considered a world traveler. Heck, some people might even throw Antarctica in the mix.

But I don’t like that approach because cultures vary way too much within continents. So I think it’s more helpful to think about different regions in terms of “mid-level cultures.”

These would be collective cultures that exist somewhere between continents and countries.

So I think it is much more helpful to break down regions into something like the following:

• Western Europe
• Eastern Europe
• Mediterranean Europe
• Central Europe
• Nordic Europe
• Northern Africa
• Western Africa
• Southern Africa
• Central Africa
• Middle East
• Southeastern Asia
• Central Asia
• Western Asia
• Andean South America
• Southern Cone South America
• New Guinea & other islands
• Mexico/Central America

(Note: this is not a comprehensive or well-settled list — just an example I put together in a few minutes.)

I think a world traveler is someone who has visited at least half of the (somewhat agreed-upon) regions of the world and has thus experienced the “majority” of the world’s (mid-level) cultures.

So to me, the country count is irrelevant for world traveler status.

I would much rather have in-depth travel experiences in ~20 countries covering 14 of the regions above than visit ~40 countries in only 7 regions.

One way to think about this distinction is to think about what it would be like to just hop between different countries.

Unlike hopping over to a neighboring country in the same region, hopping over to a different region usually forces you to re-acclimate in a much more demanding way. You often need to adjust to vastly different laws, languages, customs, climate, geography, and general ways of life.

In other words, the contrast between the countries jumps out at you in a much more profound way.

Some people might put more emphasis on exploring and appreciating the nuances between different countries within the same region.

Don’t expect to need to adjust too much when going between countries like the Netherlands and Belgium but when moving between countries in other regions you’ll still sometimes notice stark differences.

For example, the countries that make up Southeast Asia have a lot of key differences in religion, food, attitudes toward tourists, etc.

Sometimes the countries within the same region can be much more diverse than you would expect. But on average, it’s not going to be on the same level as what happens between different regions.

What does it mean to be well traveled?

Like defining a world traveler, defining what it means to be well traveled is ultimately a subjective determination.

The dictionary definition goes like this: “having been to many different places, especially to many different countries.”

But if you ask me, to be well traveled is to have had many meaningful travel experiences that have had profound effects on your life.

I’ve traveled to some countries where I spent most of my time relaxing in a luxury hotel, sipping champagne in swanky lounges, and soaking in hot tubs.

On some of those visits, I’ve (unfortunately) only spent a small amount of time venturing into the heart of cities and neighborhoods. It’s not my preferred way to travel but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy those experiences for what they were – a welcomed break from the grind.

But on those occasions, I left the country not feeling like I made any kind of meaningful connection with the place or the people that call it home.

I actually think that style of travel is okay, though. Not every visit to a new country has to blow you away with self-revelations or require total immersion in a culture.

But contrast that experience with the one I had in Cape Town, South Africa.

We explored the city nonstop for several days and capped it with a historical tour of sites that played a crucial role during apartheid. From Robben Island to District Six, we learned about the tragic events that took place and even met with some locals who had riveting stories to tell.

That’s an experience that made an immediate impact on my life and continues to do so today. Not only did I learn a lot, but I connected to those events and the stories in a way that I could have never done without traveling.

On the flip side, I also experienced what it was like to be harassed unrelentingly by locals outside of a market, which was uncomfortable and quite frankly a little bit scary.

Yes, it probably made me a more confident and resilient traveler but it also left me conflicted about my time in Cape Town.

Should I have just given them the money they were seeking? Or was I in the right for standing up against them? Did I even like this place?

To me, being well traveled is also about having experiences like those. Moments that leave you questioning things and sometimes wrestling with a bit of discomfort (aka being outside of your comfort zone).

Ironically, it’s not realizing how different every culture is that makes you well traveled, it’s realizing how similar the people are who make up those cultures.

Sure, the tastes for food, entertainment, and architecture can be vastly different across regions. And we all know how wild some religions and beliefs can be.

But when you boil it all down, you realize that everyone is finding different ways to fill the same human needs and desires.

Sometimes those methods feel dead wrong, bizzare, or at the very least a waste of time. But at some point you realize that if you were born in one of those places, you would likely be practicing the same customs and traditions with equal dedication.

Or maybe you wouldn’t.

But that’s also the point….

To me, leaving a place with a sense of conflict is one of the best attributes of travel because you’ll be wrestling with something that you may have otherwise ignored or failed to notice.

It forces you to think, do your own research, and contemplate your values.

For personal growth, it doesn’t get much better than that.

And that’s what being well-traveled is all about if you ask me.

Ultimately, the well-traveled and world traveler statuses are subjective determinations that could be based on a lot of different criteria.

I’m not the biggest fan of counting countries or seeking out these type of titles but I also don’t think there’s anything wrong with doing so. If it brings you happiness then go for it. To each their own.

But I do think that the most important thing to me is seeking out meaningful travel experiences because those offer you a tremendous way to evolve as a person. And one of the best ways to do that is to diversify your travels so that you are constantly pushing yourself out of your comfort zone.

Daniel Gillaspia is the Founder of UponArriving.com and the credit card app, WalletFlo . He is a former attorney turned travel expert covering destinations along with TSA, airline, and hotel policies. Since 2014, his content has been featured in publications such as National Geographic, Smithsonian Magazine, and CNBC. Read my bio .

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Debby Strengthens Into Hurricane as It Approaches Florida

It is expected to hit Florida early Monday, before moving over Georgia and South Carolina, bringing potentially catastrophic flooding.

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By Orlando Mayorquín and Judson Jones

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Debby rapidly strengthened into a hurricane on Sunday night, hours before it was expected to make landfall over Florida’s Big Bend coast early Monday. It will bring potentially “catastrophic flooding” and heavy rainfall to the Southeast region this week, forecasters said.

Officials in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina activated emergency resources, opened temporary shelters and urged residents of low-lying coastal areas in the storm’s path to evacuate, as Debby was expected to bring a life-threatening storm surge.

Here’s what to know about the storm:

Debby brought tropical storm conditions over the Gulf of Mexico and strengthened rapidly into a hurricane on Sunday night with winds of 80 miles per hour. It is predicted to make landfall early on Monday.

A hurricane warning was in effect for the Florida Gulf Coast and tropical storm warnings and storm surge warnings were in place for along the coasts of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. Up to 10 feet of storm surge was expected in some areas. “This is a life-threatening situation,” the National Hurricane Center said on Sunday.

Tornadoes were possible through Monday morning across Florida and parts of southern Georgia as the storm approached.

Preparations begin in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida activated about 3,000 members of the state National Guard to help respond to the storm. Fifteen counties issued voluntary or mandatory evacuation orders covering thousands of residents where storm surge and major flooding was expected.

Officials urged residents to heed evacuation orders and plan for potential power outages. In Hernando County, north of Tampa, voluntary evacuations began on Saturday night and a shelter was set up at a local school.

A life-threatening storm surge was expected for Tampa and other parts of the Florida Gulf Coast, the National Weather Service said.

Once it reaches Florida’s shores, Debby’s effects will be less about its winds and more about its rains, Mr. DeSantis said at a news conference on Sunday.

The system is expected to then move across southern Georgia from Monday into Tuesday, the Hurricane Center said.

Debby was expected to unleash six to 12 inches of rain in parts of Florida throughout the week. Rainfall of 10 to 20 inches was expected in Georgia and South Carolina, with up to 30 inches in some areas through Friday, forecasters said.

The storm was expected to reach Georgia early on Tuesday. The governor, Brian P. Kemp, on Saturday declared a state of emergency. Gov. Henry McMaster of South Carolina, who also declared a state of emergency ahead of the storm, urged residents to take warnings seriously.

“It is critical that residents in potentially affected areas start making preparations and plans in case it is necessary to take quick action,” he said.

Landfall is expected over the Florida Panhandle.

Forecasters expect Debby to land as a hurricane-strength storm somewhere over the Florida Panhandle early on Monday.

Anywhere from a five-foot storm surge in Tampa Bay to a 10-foot storm surge near where the storm’s center pushes ashore is possible. Hurricane-force winds will occur near the storm’s center, and damaging winds will extend farther out.

Last year, Hurricane Idalia made landfall over the same region as a Category 3 hurricane, bringing storm surge up to 12 feet along parts of the coast. Idalia was the strongest storm to ever hit the Big Bend region of Florida.

“If you have been asked to evacuate by your local officials and you live in one of those storm surge evacuation zones, you still have time to get to a safe place,” Mr. Brennan said.

He also warned of potential “catastrophic flooding” from heavy rainfall along the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina Tuesday into Wednesday.

This hurricane season is expected to be busy.

In May, forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted an “above normal” number of named storms for the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, with 17 to 25 storms expected. Debby is the fourth named storm so far.

The first was Alberto, which made landfall in Mexico as a tropical storm open and left at least four people dead. Alberto was followed by Beryl, which formed just over a week later and became the earliest Category 5 hurricane ever recorded.

It devastated the Caribbean before landing in Texas. Later in July came Tropical Storm Chris, which made landfall in Mexico.

Johnny Diaz and Ali Watkins contributed reporting.

Orlando Mayorquín is a breaking news reporter, based in New York, and a member of the 2023-24 Times Fellowship class , a program for journalists early in their careers. More about Orlando Mayorquín

Judson Jones is a meteorologist and reporter for The Times who forecasts and covers extreme weather. More about Judson Jones

4 dead after Debby slams Florida, causing massive flooding and widespread outages: Updates

CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS: This article has been updated to reflect that a 12-year-old girl died in a Sunday vehicle crash, according to a corrected Florida Highway Patrol news release.

Editor's Note: This page is a summary of news about  Tropical Storm Debby  for Monday, Aug. 5. For the latest on the  storm , view  USA TODAY's live updates for Tuesday, Aug. 6 .

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. − Debby , now a tropical storm, roared ashore Monday along the Big Bend coast of Florida, killing at least four people, flooding streets, and causing widespread power outages as the storm roared toward Georgia and South Carolina, where it's expected to bring catastrophic flooding this week.

"Tornadoes, catastrophic flash and urban flooding, coastal flooding, rip currents, strong gusty winds are all expected,'' in parts of the Southeast over the next several days, the National Weather Service said .

An apparent tornado touched down on Edisto Beach, South Carolina after 9:30 p.m. Monday, according to the National Weather Service in Charleston. There were multiple reports of structures damaged on Edisto Beach and across the river from Edisto Island from the radar-confirmed tornado, the weather service said.

Other popular beach destinations, including Kiawah Island and Johns Island, were being warned of possible tornado activity as additional severe storms moved onshore. 

Debby, the fourth named storm of what is predicted to be a historic hurricane season , made landfall Monday at 7 a.m. near the coastal town of Steinhatchee as a Category 1 storm with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center . Steinhatchee, about 70 miles west of Gainesville and home to some 500 people, is just 10 miles from where Hurricane Idalia came ashore last year.

After more than three hours moving across northern Florida, Debby was downgraded to a tropical storm with sustained winds of 70 mph, the hurricane center said in its 11 a.m. ET update. By 11 p.m., the winds had diminished to 45 mph, though the storm was still dropping copious amounts of rain.

State officials reported widespread flooding and inundating storm surge as Debby moved inland. The storm's winds uprooted trees and toppled utility poles, knocking out power to more than 250,000 homes and businesses throughout northern Florida. Forecasters said Debby's powerful winds could also spawn tornadoes, and storm surge could reach 10 feet in some areas.

"This is a life-threatening situation," the hurricane center warned.

On Sunday, President Joe Biden declared an emergency across Florida, authorizing the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate disaster relief efforts. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said the Florida National Guard and Florida State Guard were activated to support humanitarian assistance and search-and-rescue missions. 

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Developments:

∎ Vice President Kamala Harris postponed her campaign rally scheduled for Friday in Savannah, Georgia, because of the expected deluge there, campaign officials said.

∎ The storm surge produced by Debby brought 25 packages of cocaine with a street value of more than $1 million to a Florida beach, where a passer-by noticed them and alerted authorities, a Border Patrol official posted on the X platform .

∎ The National Hurricane Center recorded a 98 mph wind gust near Horseshoe Beach, according to the Florida Severe Weather Network, a collection of state-run weather stations.

∎ The National Water Prediction Service projected major flooding in three locations on the Santa Fe River and a location on the Suwannee River in north Florida.

∎ Debby wreaked havoc on travel . More than 1,700 flights had been canceled and upwards of 5,800 were delayed Monday, according to flight tracking site  FlightAware . The Federal Aviation Administration said all flights at Orlando International Airport have been grounded while airports in Tallahassee and Gainesville were closed.

What lies ahead for the Southeast coast

Debby is projected to move slowly across northern Florida before unleashing "potentially historic heavy rainfall" across the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina, according to the Weather Prediction Center .

Widespread rainfall totals of 10-20 inches are expected from northern Florida to southeastern North Carolina, while parts of northern Georgia and South Carolina, including Charleston, could get upward of 30 inches of rain through this weekend, Michael Brennan, director of the National Hurricane Center, said in a YouTube livestream.

Debby is expected to head into the Atlantic Ocean by late Tuesday night, then regain strength for a day or two before soaking the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina, whose governors have already declared states of emergency as they urge residents to prepare.

North Carolina and the mid-Atlantic will start getting heavy rain by midweek, the prediction center said, and tropical storm effects could be felt as far north as southern New England late in the week, AccuWeather reported.

Death toll up to four after truck driver is killed

At least four storm-related deaths have been reported in Florida.

The driver of a semi-truck was killed overnight near Temple Terrace after losing control of his vehicle on a wet Interstate 75 northeast of Tampa, the National Weather Service reported.

The three previously reported deaths linked to the storm included a woman and a 12-year-old girl killed in a car crash and a teenage boy killed when a tree fell on a mobile home.

The truck driver, a 64-year-old man from New Albany, Mississippi, lost control of the truck at around 2:30 a.m., Sgt. Steve Gaskins, a public affairs officer with the Florida Highway Patrol, said in a news release. The truck rotated on the wet highway, collided with a concrete barrier and went over the wall, coming to rest hanging over a bridge. Gaskins said the cab came loose from the trailer and fell into a deep canal below.

Divers from the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office responded shortly afterward and found the deceased driver still inside the cab underwater in the canal, according to an X post by the Sheriff’s office .

Lt. Scott Tummond, a spokesperson for the Levy County Sheriff's Office, told USA TODAY on Monday that more trees could fall after torrential downpours soaked the ground, posing a threat to residents on the road at night.

"If you're moving around after dark, you might not see it until it's too late, especially if you're driving," he warned.

Fallen tree kills 13-year-old amid Hurricane Debby

A 13-year-old boy was killed as Hurricane Debby made landfall along the Florida coast Monday morning, the Levy County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.

Deputies responded to a report of a tree that had fallen onto a mobile home around 8 a.m. in Fanning Springs, about 35 miles east from where the hurricane came ashore. The boy who died was "crushed inside the home," the sheriff's office said. 

“Our thoughts and prayers are with this family as they deal with this tragedy,” the sheriff’s office said, urging people to be careful as they begin to assess the storm damage. “Downed power lines and falling trees are among the many hazards. One life is too many. Please be safe.”

– Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY

Risk of tornadoes

With the center of Debby about 35 miles west of Brunswick, Georgia at 11 p.m. Monday, the Storm Prediction Center said a risk of tornadoes continued in the storm’s northeast quadrant, along the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina.

The center said it would likely extend a tornado watch for at least some of the 13 counties in the region beyond the scheduled 1 a.m. expiration. In addition to the earlier tornado on Edisto Island, the weather service said it had confirmed a tornado on radar on Kiawah Island around 11 p.m. 

South Carolina town under curfew ahead of storm

Authorities in Charleston, South Carolina, issued a curfew from 11 p.m. Monday through noon Tuesday ahead of what forecasters warn could be a calamitous storm.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster declared a state of emergency on Sunday as Tropical Storm Debby readied to hit South Carolina’s coast this week. The center will move offshore late Tuesday and Wednesday and approach the coast on Thursday. 

The governor said that as of Monday, he does not anticipate needing to issue any evacuation orders or order the closure of state facilities or agencies. John Quagliariello, warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said the state would likely see "historic rainfall" that would result in "catastrophic" flash flooding.

"It's very likely that some areas that have never flooded in the past will be impacted this time," Quagliariello said.

– Savannah Moss, Greenville News

Town still recovering from Idalia gets walloped by Hurricane Debby

Donna Luce lost power at 6 a.m. Monday and said rain came down for hours as the storm approached and eventually made landfall. Her home’s rain gauge showed 7 inches of rain fell Sunday alone, she said.

“It is still raining pretty hard and we expect to get that most of the day, kind of like it’s sitting right here on top of us,” Luce told USA TODAY on Monday morning.

Many fellow residents in Mayo, a small town about 30 miles north of where Debby came ashore, have spent the past year recovering from Hurricane Idalia, said Luce, 65.

“Most people had just gotten their roofs repaired, and had gotten back up on their feet,” she said, adding that several of her neighbors still had tarps on their roofs this summer. “Now it’s hitting us again one year later and we are a little discouraged."

– Claire Thornton, USA TODAY

Flooding from Hurricane Debby could last 5-10 days

The widespread flooding and significant storm surge Debby has caused across northern Florida are expected to last several days, DeSantis said Monday.

Kevin Guthrie, the executive director for the Florida Division of Emergency Management, said some parts of southwest Florida received up to a foot of rain as Debby approached the Big Bend region. He added that flooding in northern Florida will be widespread as up to 20 inches could fall over the next few days.

Guthrie cautioned people to stay indoors as flash floods break out inland and storm surge continues to inundate coastal communities.

The flood threat from Hurricane Debby, Guthrie said, "is probably going to be here for the next five to seven days, maybe as long as 10 days depending on how much rainfall we get.”

Storm sounds like a freight train, uproots trees

Alice Brown and her husband were awoken by what sounded like a freight train early Monday morning. They soon realized it was the wind and rain lashing their home as Hurricane Debby approached the Big Bend region and eventually made landfall.

“This was the strongest wind and most rain I’ve ever seen,” Brown told USA TODAY.

Brown, 68, lives in downtown High Springs, a small city of some 6,000 people outside Gainesville. While she did not lose power, several of her friends had their power knocked out overnight and were still without it Monday afternoon. 

Jordan Huey, one of Brown’s neighbors, woke up to a tree falling within inches of his son’s bedroom. Another tree in his yard uprooted and destroyed at least 20 feet of his fence. Huey still had not been able to assess the damage because powerful wind gusts were still hurling tree limbs and other debris outside.

“This is the worst it’s ever been in our area,” said Huey, 52.

Several reports of more than 10 inches of rainfall

Debby is leaving behind some eye-popping rain totals, including the 16.56 inches over two days reported by a weather station at Lakewood Ranch in Manatee County. There have been several reports of more than 10 inches of rain across the county, including 12.43 inches at the Sarasota Bradenton airport.

The weather service in Jacksonville issued a flash flood warning for parts of four counties in north Florida, saying between 7 and 14 inches of rain have fallen, and another 3 to 6 inches are possible.

With Debby's center still over north Florida by early afternoon, a daily rainfall record was set at Charleston International Airport in South Carolina, with 2.29 inches to that point, according to meteorologist Steven Taylor with the National Weather Service in Charleston.

Taylor also reiterated the forecast of 10-20 inches of rain with localized amounts near 30 inches is still on track. "The situation still looks favorable for a historic rainfall event with areas of catastrophic flooding. This is a potentially significant and life-threatening event," he said.

Woman, girl die in crash as Hurricane Debby approached Florida coast

A woman and a girl died in a single-vehicle crash in Dixie County on Sunday night, the eve of Hurricane Debby’s landfall, according to a law enforcement report.

Florida Highway Patrol troopers arrived at the scene of the crash around 9:30 p.m. A 38-year-old woman and 12-year-old girl were pronounced dead, while a 14-year-old boy was seriously injured and rushed to a hospital for treatment.

Witnesses told the Florida Highway Patrol the car lost control “due to inclement weather and wet roadway.”

“After losing control, the vehicle struck the guardrail in the center median, then redirected, overturning, leaving the roadway to the right,” the Florida Highway Patrol said. The crash is under investigation.

More than 130K without power after Debby makes landfall

More than 130,000 homes and businesses in Florida, the majority of them in the north, were without power by 12 a.m. ET on Tuesday as Debby continued its path across the state.

The outages were most abundant from Wakulla to Levy County, according to Poweroutage.us . In Taylor County, where Hurricane Debby made landfall at 7 a.m., more than 97% of utility customers lost power at one point. In several surrounding counties, that figure was well over 80%.

At a news conference Monday morning, DeSantis said 17,000 linemen across the state were poised to begin restoring power once the storm passes.

Forecasters watching tropical system near Caribbean 

Debby wasn't the only storm forecasters were watching Monday. They were also keeping an eye on another developing tropical system that was approaching the Caribbean Sea.

Although chances for development were low as of Monday afternoon, the National Hurricane Center said "environmental conditions are expected to become more conducive for development later this week as the system moves across the western Caribbean Sea or the southern Gulf of Mexico."

If its winds eventually reach 39 mph, the system would become a named tropical storm. The next name on the list is Ernesto. It's too early to determine if there will be any impact to the U.S. from this system.

Pacific sets 50-year record for storms

The eastern Pacific hurricane season has also heated up: The Pacific currently has four named storms spinning at the same time: Carlotta, Daniel, Emilia and Fabio. This is the first time since August 1974 that the eastern North Pacific has had four named storms simultaneously, according to Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach.

None of the four storms are forecast to approach or impact land as they spin far out to sea in the Pacific, the National Hurricane Center said.  

The activity in the Pacific comes after a very slow start to the season . For the first time since the satellite era began in 1966, the entire North Pacific saw no named storm activity between June 1 and July 3, Klotzbach said.

What makes Debby such a treacherous storm?

Debby is a large and slow-moving storm, making the system particularly dangerous as record amounts of rain inundate many areas, especially along the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina in the coming days.

The storm’s center was forecast to move near Savannah, Georgia, on Tuesday night and drag along the South Carolina Coast on Thursday night. "Multiple days of very, very heavy rainfall" are possible, Brennan said. The National Weather Service estimates rainfall totals could reach up to 30 inches or more in isolated locations along the coast through Friday.

Debby shows there's more to a storm than wind scale

The widespread flooding caused by Debby even after being downgraded to a tropical storm illustrates how the wind scale categories used to define hurricanes can fall short of telling the whole story of their impact, scientists say.

"This is another example of a storm where the primary impacts are going to be from water, rather than wind," said James Franklin, a retired branch chief of the hurricane specialist unit at the National Hurricane Center.

Jennifer Collins, a professor in the Geosciences School at the University of South Florida, has studied how to better communicate all of a storm’s threats. Looking at the forecasts of up to 30 inches of rain in isolated locations between Savannah and Charleston, Collins said she’s very concerned about the likelihood of “catastrophic flooding." Read more here .

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Spaghetti models.

Illustrations include an array of forecast tools and models, and not all are created equal. The hurricane center uses only the top four or five highest performing models to help make its forecasts.

When is the Atlantic hurricane season the most active?

The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 through Nov. 30. The peak of the season is Sept. 10, and the most activity usually happens between mid-August and mid-October, according to the hurricane center.

After Hurricane Beryl's deadly rampage in July, forecasters from Colorado State University  raised their already record hurricane forecast . They now expect an additional hurricane (a total of 12 for the season) and two more named storms (25 for the season).

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