TC Bertha

[Extremeweatherguy]

umm....global warming link??

oh sorry, must have accidently copied that from JBs post I had open at the time instead of copying the NHC link. Its fixed now.

[HURAKAN]

For the RECON plane is better to have a storm stationary so they don't to be constantly catching up.

[gotoman38]

For the RECON plane is better to have a storm stationary so they don't to be constantly catching up.

Yeah, except it's not really stationary - it seems that the center may have drifted a bit west in the images since the last VDM?

[HURAKAN]

[HURAKAN]

[cpdaman]

high cirrus appear to be expanding abit to the NNE of the system perhaps some movement soon?

c ya back in a few hours (dave matthews concert party/ time)

[HurricaneHunter914]

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t1/loop-avn.html
Convection seems to be wrapping arund the center.

[pojo]

For the RECON plane is better to have a storm stationary so they don't to be constantly catching up.

even if the storm is Stationary... we'll still be catching up in the eye.... we have to mark the exact center... and it is very common for the plane to move L or R once we penetrate the eyewall.

[gotoman38]

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t1/loop-avn.html
Convection seems to be wrapping arund the center.

And relocating to the SE now it seems.



btw - the image is from 1845Z - 2 mins after the 2nd VDM was taken..... ??

[HURAKAN]

gotoman38, could you change the color of the number in the image, very hard to see.

[gotoman38]

gotoman38, could you change the color of the number in the image, very hard to see.

Sorry - how does this work? (btw - new 1915 image)

[Sanibel]

Weird storm. Showing annular persistence but not quite having the conditions to sustain it. Dry air still trying to break in but not quite doing it.

[cycloneye]

Berthas thread escalates 5th place in the most Tropical Storms and Hurricanes pages threads:

1-Dean=583
2-Ivan=352
3-Wilma=282
4-Chris=265
5-Bertha=?????
6-Noel=196
7-Frances=187
8-Ernesto=177
9-Ingrid=132
10-Charley=124

[sponger]

Pretty impressive for the first storm of the season. How many posts will we reach when a land threat develops.

[HURAKAN]

First hurricane. Arthur was the first storm.

[gatorcane]

what's nice about Bertha as that assuming she does not severely impact Bermuda, she is an interesting storm to watch just spinning away harmlessly over the open waters of the Atlantic.....

[cycloneye]

This shows that the members were very interested in this system from the start as it was a first one to form the most east in early July,and is not necessary to have a system threatening land to have hundreds of posts.What you need is a system that from the start raises the expectations of the members to follow it from start to finish even in open waters.

[Extremeweatherguy]

Berthas thread escalates 5th place in the most Tropical Storms and Hurricanes pages threads:

1-Dean=583
2-Ivan=352
3-Wilma=282
4-Chris=265
5-Bertha=?????
6-Noel=196
7-Frances=187
8-Ernesto=177
9-Ingrid=132
10-Charley=124

Wow! I can't believe that TS Chris had more pages than once-major hurricane Bertha.

[HurricaneHunter914]

Bertha would have to do a loop and bomb into a Cat-5 to beat Dean's record.

[brunota2003]

Bertha would have to do a loop and bomb into a Cat-5 to beat Dean's record.

While threatening a major coastline, then move up the east coast slowly, just off the shoreline (so only the very outerbands reach the coast) and wobbling.