Tropical Storm Bonnie Disorganized Over South Florida

Tropical Storm Bonnie was crossing over south Florida at 11 a.m. EDT today, July 23, and it is being battered by strong wind shear. Satellite and radar data have indicated that the center of Bonnie’s circulation is southeast of the strongest convection and showers, which are currently located over southeastern Florida.

Eye on Bonnie as she tracks across Florida today. At 1625 UTC (12:25 p.m. EDT), GOES-13 visible imagery showed the bulk of Bonnie’s clouds over south Florida, although her center is southeast of there. GOES is operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and NASA’s GOES Project, located at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. creates some of the GOES satellite images.

At 11 a.m. EDT, Bonnie’s center was near 25.4 North and 80.3 West, about 30 miles south-southwest of Miami, Fla. and 130 miles southeast of Fort Myers, Fla. Bonnie’s maximum sustained winds remain near 40 mph, and she’s moving west-northwest near 18 mph. Bonnie is expected to produce total rain accumulations of 1 to 3 inches over south Florida with possible isolated maximum amounts of 5 inches.