Tropical Storm Imelda is expected to become a hurricane on Tuesday, Sept. 30.

Latest path has Imelda moving further east than originally predicted.

Coastal North Carolina expected to see greater impact than further inland.

The western Carolinas may be spared the brunt of Tropical Storm Imelda , but the rain is still expected to arrive.

Imelda's predicted path has it hooking to the east and skirting along the coastlines of South and North Carolina instead of pushing landward and bringing punishing rain and wind to the western part of the Carolinas this week.

“There is increasing confidence in the storm staying well offshore of the southeastern United States coast,” Eric Blake, a senior hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center, wrote in an update on Monday, Sept. 29.

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