TC Bertha

[KWT]

Its a strange looking hurricane I have to admit, the eye is huge whilst tthere is only a thing region of convection to its north which is probably the eyewall and thats about it in terms of convection. Its certainly one of the more weird hurricanes I've seen!

[HURAKAN]

What kind of gave me a shock is to realize that in five days Bertha would have just crossed 35°N. I know we want to track cyclones, but to track the same one for too long becomes kind of boring!! WE WANT CRISTÓBAL!!!

[weatherguru18]

latest discussion uses the word annular in its desription of the cloud formations.

Yeah, I commented yesterday about how Bertha was definitely taking on annular characteristics. Isn't that usually the last ditch effort for a storm to stay a hurricane before its demise?

[KWT]

Who knows Hurakan, its not expected to move very fast I kind of hope it moves out of the way quickly. The interesting thing is the longer it takes the more chance of any system behind it following it through the same weakness.

[Sanibel]

Welp, I defer to NHC. Warm Bertha deceives the eye from her satellite presentation. That's the driest, dry-banded, warmest-topped "annular" hurricane I've ever seen. Can't argue that Google shot for continuous eyewall though.

[RL3AO]

Yay intermediate advisories!

[JonathanBelles]

This has got to be one of the oddest TC's ive watched. a roller coaster of intensity, shear, dry air, and cool SSTs all take their whack but all fail to prevent a cat 3, annular (pretty much), tiny eye, huge eye. All I have to say, I wish I could be sitting in the middle of Bertha's eye right now.

[HURAKAN]

Yay intermediate advisories!

Yep, good news. I also liked this part of the discussion showing Ávila's humor:

ALTHOUGH IT APPEARS
THAT THE OUTER EYEWALL COULD SHRINK RESULTING IN INTENSIFICATION...
I AM NOT CONSIDERING IT IN THIS FORECAST BECAUSE I HAVE NO IDEA
WHEN OR IF THIS CYCLE WILL OCCUR.

[KWT]

Yep Fact this certainly has been an entertaining hurricane, its changed pretty constantly throughout its exsitance, been sheared, had dry air hit it, been a category-3, looks close to being Annular, etc!

[wxman57]

One thing I'd like to point out on the image blow is the tilt of the eyewall remains. Note that you can identify what looks like 3 concentric rings - one farthest southwest at the surface, one in the mid levels, and one higher up. Picture a cylinder that's pointed up and away from the camera. Remember that the "camera" (the satellite) is located over the Equator to the south and west of Bertha. So when you look at the eye from that angle, the top of the eye is farther away than the bottom (near the surface). That's why the surface center is located in the southwest part of the eye.

Wow!!

[HURAKAN]

[JonathanBelles]

One thing I'd like to point out on the image blow is the tilt of the eyewall remains. Note that you can identify what looks like 3 concentric rings - one farthest southwest at the surface, one in the mid levels, and one higher up. Picture a cylinder that's pointed up and away from the camera. Remember that the "camera" (the satellite) is located over the Equator to the south and west of Bertha. So when you look at the eye from that angle, the top of the eye is farther away than the bottom (near the surface). That's why the surface center is located in the southwest part of the eye.

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I knew where the satellite was, but never looked at the eye in that way. pretty cool!

[HURAKAN]

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[KWT]

It actually kind of reminds me of a super sized Vince in terms of its strcutre!

[Weatherfreak14]

Last frame shows a little wooble to the west and it looks really bad for bermuda if this thing does not take off to the north soon.

[CrazyC83]

What kind of gave me a shock is to realize that in five days Bertha would have just crossed 35°N. I know we want to track cyclones, but to track the same one for too long becomes kind of boring!! WE WANT CRISTÓBAL!!!

It could easily be a month before we get Cristobal.

[HURAKAN]

I know but when a storm takes too long to go it becomes boring because it's the same thing every day although Bertha looks like a different storm every day!!!

[wxman57]

It could easily be a month before we get Cristobal.

Or it could be next Tuesday/Wednesday if you look in the eastern Atlantic.

[KWT]

Yeah thats the thing with Bertha its had so many various traits of different systems over the last 5 days and plus it has been setting history, its far more exciting then say the 06 cape verde systems. Wxman57...that sounds pretty bullish for you!

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

Yeah thats the thing with Bertha its had so many various traits of different systems over the last 5 days and plus it has been setting history, its far more exciting then say the 06 cape verde systems. Wxman57...that sounds pretty bullish for you!

Not as good as the 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004 cape verdes. But better then 2006,2007. In better then 2005.