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Bertha

Every dispatch filed on Bertha, in order, so you can watch the call sharpen from first mention to the last word.

6Dispatches
5Days · JUL 18–JUL 22
I-26Tropics
Where the dispatches were filed5 of 6 placed
Map of North America and the Atlantic with a shield at each dispatch's place Natural Earth · places from the headlines
Tropical Depression 02L formed in the northern Gulf with intensification likely in the coming days with outside shot of a hurricane if Bertha takes a slightly south of due westerly course FIGURE 1 JUL 19 · I-26 TROPICS Tropical Depression 02L formed in the northern Gulf with intensification likely in the coming days with outside shot of a hurricane if Bertha takes a slightly south of due westerly course The depression remains sprawling and disorganized but should improve on Monday and become Tropical Storm Bertha FIGURE 1 JUL 19 · I-26 TROPICS The depression remains sprawling and disorganized but should improve on Monday and become Tropical Storm Bertha Tropical Storm Bertha has formed in the Gulf and will impact the coastline through the weekend with rain and wind FIGURE 1 JUL 20 · I-26 TROPICS Tropical Storm Bertha has formed in the Gulf and will impact the coastline through the weekend with rain and wind
The route · every exit
  1. Exit 1 · JUL 18 · Subscribers Invest 91L tagged in the Gulf with a 50% chance of further development into a tropical depression. Next name is Bertha Gulf of Mexico
  2. Exit 2 · JUL 19 Tropical Depression 02L formed in the northern Gulf with intensification likely in the coming days with outside shot of a hurricane if Bertha takes a slightly south of due westerly course Gulf of Mexico
  3. Exit 3 · JUL 19 The depression remains sprawling and disorganized but should improve on Monday and become Tropical Storm Bertha
  4. Exit 4 · JUL 20 Tropical Storm Bertha has formed in the Gulf and will impact the coastline through the weekend with rain and wind Gulf of Mexico
  5. Exit 5 · JUL 21 · Subscribers Tropical Storm Bertha will move near Louisiana coast on Wednesday but is not expected to intensify further. Heaviest showers remain offshore Louisiana
  6. Exit 6 · JUL 22 · Subscribers Center of Tropical Storm Bertha will hug the coastline but heavier showers will detach and head for Texas on Thursday Texas
END Final dispatch JUL 22.

Why I-26?

Tropical stories ride Interstate 26, after the 26 °C sea-surface temperature often used as a rough threshold for tropical development.

26 °C

The sea-surface temperature often used as a rough threshold for tropical development; the shield number of this road.

Invest

An area the Hurricane Center is investigating, numbered 90–99 with a basin letter, before it has a name.

ACE

Accumulated Cyclone Energy: a season's wind, squared and summed every six hours. Climatology sets the scale.