jeremy_wheeler's Blog

From the title you are probably either curious or confused.  Remember the list of tropical cyclones repeats every 6 years.  12 years ago in early July (about the same time as now) and in the same place (Eastern Atlantic) a small storm formed off the coast of Africa.  It moved West/Northwest and became hurricane Bertha over the Central Atlantic.  Amazing coincidence that the current Tropical Storm Bertha is on a generally similar path and at the same time as that year.  (By the way thanks to the weather folks on medialine for hinting me to this).  

The current Bertha is a little further north than the 96' track.  At 5 days out, the National Hurricane Center estimates the winds to be near 70mph.  Could get very interesting around here next weekend.  Odds are that it will probably curve and head back out to sea.  But Bertha 96' hit the North Carolina Coast around the Wilmington, NC area.   So even if the forecast track didn't bring Bertha 08' closer to the United States, there would still be a good reason to watch the storm.....  To compare it to the old Bertha of course.  Stay with Fox 43 and WAVY-TV for the latest information.