"Shear" Luck!

Good news for the Gulf! Bonnie has now been downgraded from a tropical storm to a tropical depression. The reason? Wind shear. Tropical cyclones do not like wind...or at least winds that they don't create. While it's true that wind shear can favour the development of indivudal thunderstorms, this is not the case for cyclones which are a series of storms attempting to get organized. With winds coming from all different directions Bonnie is just unable to keep herself together and is losing steam fast. It is not likely that she will become a hurricane, but even as a weak strom, her current track (seen below) is cause for concern for those involved in the clean-up of all of that oil.