Tropical Storm Fay was the sixth named storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. Fay was a long-lived tropical storm that developed on August 15 just offshore the western coast of Puerto Rico. Fay would spend most of its lifetime overland, battering many Caribbean nations with heavy rainfall. Fay would ultimately make four Florida landfalls, its first near Key West on August 18, and its last near Carrabelle on August 23. Fay produced torrential rainfall across portions of Florida, as it meandered there for days; some areas, such as Melbourne, received as much as 30 inches of rain from the slow-moving tropical storm. Fay was an unusual storm in that it intensified after making landfall in Florida.