Past, Future Bertha and the Undular Bore
UPDATE: Bertha 2008 is now a Tropical Storm. Here is a past track for Bertha 1996, you can also see it on our Google Hurricane Tracker. The excellent CIMSS blog now has an entry up on this topic.
UPDATE: I added forecast information below. I also found my original "blog" on Bertha 1996, wow, a blast from the past. I didn't even think it was still online! Further proof that I was blogging before blogging began. Here also is an image showing lightning strikes on top of satellite data, via NAMMA's Google Earth feed.
ORIGINAL REPORT:The NHC [JessePedia] says this morning that Tropical Depression #2 has formed. Check out this high-res satellite shot (with an Undular Bore coming off of Africa in the upper right!).
You can see more satellite images, including earlier images and Infrared images in the WeatherMatrix Archive. The NHC said: "TROPICAL DEPRESSION FORMS OVER THE FAR EASTERN ATLANTIC OCEAN... SOME STRENGTHENING IS FORECAST DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS AND THE DEPRESSION COULD BECOME A TROPICAL STORM LATER TODAY."
If it does make it to Tropical Storm status, it will be named "Bertha" which offends me, as I was storm chasing near Bertha's landfall in North Carolina in 1996 and she was no peach. Strong storm names are retired, but she was not on the list, despite causing $277 million damage in the U.S. [WikiPedia].
More up-to-date information is available in our our Hurricane Center, Weather Headlines (PREMIUM | PRO) and Breaking Weather News Page (PREMIUM | PRO), and our official forecast Eye Path (as of this morning) is shown below (click here for current track).
This looks fairly innoncent for the East Coast, but AccuWeather.com Professional's Joe Bastardi [BIO] (PRO USERS READ NOW | 30-DAY FREE TRIAL) says there could be a westward trend to the forecasts:
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