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As per the 11am update, the National Hurricane Center has announced the formation of Tropical Depression Three in the Bahamas. The Hurricane Hunters are en route to the storm to get better readings of pressure levels and wind speeds but it looks like we’ll have Tropical Storm Bonnie some time today. 

Tropical Storm warnings have been issued for the Bahamas, South Florida, and the Keys for the next 48 hours. Also looks like it will be a rough weekend for the oil cleanup crew in the Gulf as this storm looks like it is going to cross right over where everything is happening. 

Tropical Storm Alex, now weakened to a tropical depression again as it crosses over the Yucatan Peninsula, should have no problem restrengthening and becoming this year’s first Hurricane as it encounters low wind shear the warm waters of the Gulf. The good news is that it will stay clear of the oil spill and miss the US. The bad news is it will likely make landfall as a Category 1 hurricane somewhere in Eastern Mexico.

I made a post the other day on SURFBANG that is loaded with facts about how any tropical weather system will interact with the oil spill in the Gulf. You can check it out and read the facts here.