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Tropical Storm Bertha is causing impacts along the northern Gulf as coastal communities in parts of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana brace for strong wind gusts, heavy rain and coastal flooding.
Bertha formed Monday in the northeastern Gulf, becoming the second named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season.
The storm has turned westward, and tropical storm conditions are spreading over portions of the Florida panhandle, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC).
Full article, HERE from Fox News.
As you can see below, Bertha’s track has been anything but stable. And it is unusual for one to continue this far west without turning north...
This thing has turned around twice, pointed in multiple directions, and the computer tracks... well, this is one of the ‘better’ sets of predictions...
The only real ‘advantage’ to the westward direction, is that the strongest rain bands are out over the Gulf and will probably stay there unless it takes the HAFS-B or HWRF tracks. There will still be a good amount of rain, and some storm surge, but not as bad as it ‘could’ be. But Texas and Louisiana have already had major rain events in the last week or so, and there is really no where for the water to go.
So if you are anywhere near the path, keep an eye on the weather, and be ready to head to high ground!
This has definitely been a wet summer. We get thunderstorms through here about once or twice a week now, NONE of which are predicted by the weather service until they're actually happening. So it's been hot and muggy here for weeks now. Makes me wonder what August will be like this year.
It's been hovering off the coast to our south for several days now. We get t-storms at least once a day and windy moments, which the four-legged toddlers intensely dislike. My wife and I are hunkered down right now, waiting.
It will passover eventually.
To anyone else in its path, our prayers. 🙏