TC Bertha

[RL3AO]

[HURAKAN]

Very difficult to see the letters but very true!

[cpdaman]

water should be a wee bit warmer (less upwelled) should she be able to keep moving NW

which IMO could lead to re-intensification back to hurricane strength

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dataphod1 ... 4atsst.png

steve lyons was saying how her upper levels had been blown off to the SE as she moves NW so perhaps there is a bit of mid/ upper shear now, (n shear)

[Cyclone1]

If this forum allowed signatures, that'd be my signature.

[cpdaman]

i don't think anyone should give up on bertha yet (not saying anyone has, but most have been lulled to sleep by her stationary and weakening trends)

she has surprised before

although there appears to be a pocket of mid level northerly shear to her N and W in the CIMSS shear maps

recon shows center is near 29.9 62.8 (988mb)

[KWT]

Looks like a 50-55kts tropical storm right now, NHC strength seems to be about right. Bertha still needs to be watched but there does seem to be some shear now and the inner core issue really messed this system up.

Still 200 pages for Bertha is impressive, indeed its probably the longest thread for a recurving hurricane I reckon!

[93superstorm]

Starting to refire in her NE Side and trying to wrap back around. Kinda looks it'll graze Bermuda:

[KWT]

Yep lots of convection but not all that much on the western side, still sort of wrapped. I can imagine when it does become ET at last this could become fairly strong.

[HURAKAN]

Center Loops? Very interesting.

Loop: http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/product ... 030800.GIF

[cycloneye]

More sense of humor by Lixon Avila

WTNT32 KNHC 131735
TCPAT2
BULLETIN
TROPICAL STORM BERTHA INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER 42A
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL022008
200 PM AST SUN JUL 13 2008

...BERTHA HESITATES AGAIN...REFUSES TO MOVE...

[JonathanBelles]

yet another face of Bertha...

[KWT]

In some ways that swirl is very impressive. Its not doing anything impressive in terms of convection on the NW/SW side but it doesn't look all that bad to look at.

[Aric Dunn]

bertha causing some serious upwhelling..

[Ad Novoxium]

Starting to refire in her NE Side and trying to wrap back around. Kinda looks it'll graze Bermuda:

That looks uncannily like a mushroom.

[KWT]

Actually that looks more like the letter J to me but there we go!

[senorpepr]

I've dropped the basin-wide SST charts in lieu of doing zoomed in, storm floater-type SST charts. See the above graphics...

[Ptarmigan]

Bertha looks so weird. There is a large eye and no convection to the west, while all the convection is to the east.

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tr ... ml#a_topad

[KWT]

In some ways it reminds me of those systems close to going ET where all the convection is transfered to ne side, not happening here like that but it does at least look a touch like that, even though looks are deceptive!

[HURAKAN]

[DESTRUCTION5]

is that a stiple?LOL