TC Bertha

[senorpepr]

[Ptarmigan]

I wonder Bertha will see any ptarmigans.

[fasterdisaster]

Wow I wonder if it can go into Russia

[Category 5]

How far can she go?

[senorpepr]

The remnants of Bertha have made "landfall" in the Murmansk Oblast (oblast ~ province) of Russia.

Bertha was bringing rainshowers throughout most of the province.

[O Town]

The energizer bunny finally dies. LOL

[senorpepr]

The energizer bunny finally dies. LOL

I wouldn't be so quick to say that. Bertha is now cold-core and doesn't need the ocean to survive.

[CrazyC83]

Could Bertha be transitioning from extratropical to polar?

[brunota2003]

We tracked Bertha from her time as a tropical wave, all the way to her "landfall" as an extratropical (cold core)...something. It is amazing, arent most former TC's absorbed by this point?

[HenkL]

Bertha merged with an extratropical low days ago, in the Iceland region. IMO we can't talk about ex-Bertha since then. The low near Murmansk has nothing ex-tropical left.

[senorpepr]

While I agree that this has nothing remotely tropical associated with it, I'm not quick to say it "merged" with an extratropical low. Yes, it was associated with one, connect by means of a front, but the two never did fully merge, IMO. The vorticity from Bertha seperated from the other low, before to completely merged, between Iceland and Svetland. Meanwhile, that same low deepened and is still meandering between Iceland and Greenland. The vorticity of ex-Bertha is currently crossing the White Sea, bound of Arkhangel'sk.