Little has changed on my thoughts in that this system becomes a weak tropical storm moving well east & northeast of Jacksonville making a landfall on the S. Carolina coast Saturday night/Sunday.
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Bonnie is now located 5 miles west of Charleston, South Carolina, and 95 miles southwest of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Bonnie’s top sustained winds decreased to 35 miles per hour this morning, dipping below the threshold for a tropical storm.
“We’re not out of the woods because the heavy rain could move back over us today if it really sits on us”, he said.
The Hurricane Center says Bonnie will move slowly up the coast over the next few days and more flooding is possible.
As of 11 p.m. EDT Sunday, Bonnie was meandering near Charleston, South Carolina. The hurricane prompted hurricane and tropical storm warnings for the Azores and forced the closure of schools and businesses.
Bonnie was expected to produce total rainfall accumulations of 2 to 4 inches with isolated maximum amounts of 8 inches in parts of SC and Georgia, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Columbia area residents did not see heavy rainfall from Bonnie Sunday, with just around a half an inch of rain in most areas by late afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. Later Sunday, the storm was forecast to move up along the Mid-Atlantic coast and into New England on Memorial Day.
Lifeguards at busy beaches warned swimmers about heavy surf and unsafe rip currents churned up by the wind that can pull them out to deeper water. A flash flood warning was issued for Jasper County, where the southbound lanes of busy Interstate 95 were closed for at least 10 hours because of high water.
8 a.m.: Rain is heaviest from northwestern CT, through central MA, into Rhode Island and the Boston metro area.
Tropical Depression Bonnie made landfall on the SC coast Sunday morning, causing another bad beach day during Memorial Day weekend.
The area off the Southeast coast, as well as the Gulf of Mexico and northwest Caribbean, is a part of the Atlantic basin where early-season tropical or subtropical storm development is most likely.
Many of the Memorial Day services listed in Lehigh and Northampton counties have rain locations, but some, including the Lehigh Valley Veterans for Peace observance at Cedar Beach in Allentown will be at the mercy of the weather.
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This is the second tropical system to form this year, developing just days before the official start of the Atlantic Hurricane Season on June 1.
