Watches, warnings for northern Gulf as Tropical Storm Bertha strengthens | Tracking the Tropics
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What is the current status and intensity of Tropical Storm Bertha?
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All kinds of surprises getting slung our way, Bertha intensifying a little bit more than we originally thought, and we had some technical issues at the top, but we are moving on. We're alive from the WFLA Streaming Center here. I'm meteorologist Rebecca Berry, and we are tracking Bertha. Of course, I'm joined by meteorologist Juliana Mejia. She is our graphic superstar, and she's gonna get us through everything we need to know with Tropical Storm Bertha. We're also joined by meteorologist Justin Mosley. He is our deep dive specialist, and he runs deep with Florida meteorology, but we need a little more help. And that's why we're also joined by meteorologist Hank from our uh our New Orleans station. Hey, I know it's a busy time.
Thanks so much for joining us, Hank.
Oh I mean, I always love being all with you guys. Thanks for having me.
Thanks so much. And I want to remind everyone this is an interactive program. So if you have questions or comments at any point, use one of our branded hashtags. They're hashtag hey Rebecca, hashtag hey Juliana, hashtag hey Hank, and hashtag hey Justin. And we will be able to bring your comments here on the screen. But we all want to know what is going on with Bertha. And so we're gonna send Juliana to the wall. She's been working all morning long on these graphics for you to let you know exactly what's going on with Bertha. And then we'll be taking a look at what we might might expect to happen with Bertha and had a little bit of a conversation with Hank, because uh spoiler alert, Hank called the intensification.
So he was the one that said, Nope, this might be a hurricane. But for right now, it's just a tropical storm. Juliana?
Yeah, taking a look here at Tropical Storm Bertha. At uh 68 mile per hour winds for the current advisory, the latest advisory for the National Hurricane Center as of the 11 a.m. advisory, and that is moving to the northwest at three miles per hour. You can see here with the uh lopsided kind of nature of this storm with a lot of convection still on the south side. Uh, but overall, yeah, a little bit of a surprise there with that steady straight. strengthening just to about 10 miles per hour greater than initially expected, really because of a kind of pocket of lower wind shear. It's kind of out ahead of the developing higher wind shear that we'll take a look at here in just a second. But here's a look at the forecast cone where that's expected here through the next uh 24 hours or so to maintain strength, if not dip back down to 50 mile per hour winds and then continue to weaken slowly
But surely from there, maintaining tropical storm strength through Thursday, and then eventually unravel more and more once we get to about Thursday. Though you can also see the active tropical storm watches and warnings now for the panhandle of Florida upgraded to tropical storm warnings, and then those watches extending over into pretty much most of Louisiana's coastline at this point. There is a low-end risk for storm storm. surge anywhere from about uh the same areas more or less. So the Florida panhandle over into Louisiana, from about a foot to two feet and even some spots mainly over into far eastern portions of Louisiana, that storm surge forecast upwards of three to four feet. Here's a look though at the uh latest Hurricane Hunter uh mission where both the Air Force and NOAA hurricane hunters had been in and out of Bertha throughout this morning and uh had really kept up with the uh stor rather wind speeds, max wind speeds, around 60 miles per hour at times had seen upwards of greater, but uh for now gonna be can continuing to see wind shear because.
An issue here. I wanted to show you first the spaghetti model plots because this has been the trend through the last few days of hugging the North Coast. And the forecast comb for the National Hurricane Center is reflecting the kind of consensus from most of the forecast models that Bertha's gonna try to hold on to the energy of the Gulf and those really warm sea surface temperatures.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the current status and intensity of Tropical Storm Bertha?
0:00–6:06
2
How are the latest graphics and model runs showing Bertha’s projected track?
6:06–8:02
3
What are the expected wind speeds, storm surge, and rainfall for the Florida panhandle and western Gulf?
8:02–12:37
4
How will the upcoming ridge and wind shear affect Bertha’s strength over the next 24‑48 hours?
12:37–17:51
5
What are the worst‑case and best‑case storm‑surge scenarios for Louisiana and coastal Texas?
17:51–21:29
6
How might a southwest turn change the threat to Houston, Galveston, and the Texas coastline?
21:29–25:08
7
Why do meteorologists say the track of Bertha is unusual and how do naming conventions work?
25:08–26:08
8
What should listeners watch for in the next few days as Bertha evolves and weakens?
26:08–26:19
Speakers
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