HURRICANE SEASON 2008

                                    Tropical Storm Bertha approaches warmer waters






Sun Jul 6, 2008
 
MIAMI - Tropical Storm Bertha is approaching warmer waters and is likely to strengthen during the next couple of days.
 
At 5 a.m. EDT Sunday, Bertha was centered about 1,310 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands in the Caribbean.

Maximum sustained winds are near 50 mph with some higher gusting. Forecasters say Bertha is expected to strengthen during the next few days and could become the season's first hurricane.

The storm is moving toward the west. It's still too early to say if or where Bertha will hit land.

The first named storm this year, Arthur, formed in the Atlantic the day before the season officially started June 1 and soaked the Yucatan Peninsula.