Tropical Storm Bonnie to Impact South Florida, Keys
Tropical depression 3 has become Tropical Storm Bonnie in the Atlantic Basin.
Tropical Storm Bonnie will spread drenching rain and gusty thunderstorms from the Bahamas to South Florida today before entering the Gulf of Mexico this weekend.
The storm is currently located over warm, open waters between the Bahamas and Cuba, about 155 miles southeast of Miami, Fla., and is heading in a west-northwestward fashion. The track of the system should allow the center of circulation to pass through the Florida Straits, the waterway between Florida and Cuba, later today, brushing the Florida Keys.
The system developed a low-level circulation, indicative of a tropical storm Thursday afternoon and has been so dubbed. Tropical Depression 3 became Tropical Storm Bonnie shortly after 6 p.m., EDT, on Thursday.
Bonnie is producing squalls, or bands and clusters of thunderstorms well away from its center, across the Bahamas, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. As the day gets underway, the squalls will reach the southeast coast of Florida.
That includes Miami and West Palm Beach.
The thunderstorms are expected to spread over more of South Florida, such as Naples and Key West through today.
A couple of drenching thunderstorms or even gusty squalls could roll through central Florida, including Melbourne, Orlando and Tampa, today.
AccuWeather meteorologists are forecasting Bonnie to track toward the northern Gulf Coast and the oil spill area this weekend.
AccuWeather.com Expert Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski contributed to the content of this story.
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