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Re: Tropical Storm Bertha Forms South of Cape Verde Islands
Fri Jul 04 2008 03:35 AM

After a typical diurnal drop off in convection during the day today (Thursday), Bertha seems to have developed a fairly tightly compact and robust circulation core this evening. Nocturnal phase of development may be underway. Current satellite takes on the appearance of CDO - though it is less likely that is the case for the time being. TPC seems to agree with intensification overall, per their 11pm advisory/discussion, and the intensity has been raised to 40kts.

Her vitals are unchanged. She will remain in a low shear environment for at least the next 2-3 days, after which some increased shear may or may not significantly impact her. She has only marginal SSTs to work with at 25C, which is a limiting factor on any thinking for rapid intensification. We really like to see a minimum 82F SST and significantly deep thermocline (water temperature decreases with increasing depth) combined with low shear and a noticeable positive anomaly in the outflow (perhaps a channel); none of which is really observable at this time in that part of the Atlantic. This is probably why they are a bit more conservative on development than some of the tropical models are forecasting.

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Tropical Storm Bertha Forms South of Cape Verde Islands	MikeC	Fri Jul 04 2008 03:35 AM
Hurricane Bertha	John C	Mon Jul 07 2008 10:44 AM
Re: Tropical Storm Bertha Forms South of Cape Verde Islands	cieldumort	Mon Jul 07 2008 07:15 AM
Re: Tropical Storm Bertha Forms South of Cape Verde Islands	LDH892	Mon Jul 07 2008 06:05 AM
Re: Tropical Storm Bertha Forms South of Cape Verde Islands	Hugh	Mon Jul 07 2008 01:30 AM
Re: Tropical Storm Bertha Forms South of Cape Verde Islands	Random Chaos	Mon Jul 07 2008 01:23 AM
Re: Tropical Storm Bertha Forms South of Cape Verde Islands	Hugh	Mon Jul 07 2008 12:56 AM
Re: Tropical Storm Bertha Forms South of Cape Verde Islands	LoisCane	Mon Jul 07 2008 12:13 AM
Re: Tropical Storm Bertha Forms South of Cape Verde Islands	Hugh	Sun Jul 06 2008 10:09 PM
Re: Tropical Storm Bertha Forms South of Cape Verde Islands	cieldumort	Sun Jul 06 2008 09:56 PM
Re: Bertha intensifying	Random Chaos	Sun Jul 06 2008 09:02 PM
Re: Bertha intensifying	Random Chaos	Sun Jul 06 2008 08:56 PM
Re: Bertha intensifying	weatherguy08	Sun Jul 06 2008 08:49 PM
Re: Bertha intensifying	Hugh	Sun Jul 06 2008 08:44 PM
Bertha intensifying	craigm	Sun Jul 06 2008 08:33 PM
Re: Accuweather	Genesis	Sun Jul 06 2008 08:17 PM
Re: Accuweather	Hugh	Sun Jul 06 2008 07:40 PM
Re: Accuweather	LDH892	Sun Jul 06 2008 06:21 PM
Re: Accuweather	scottsvb	Sun Jul 06 2008 06:02 PM
Re: Accuweather	WeatherNut	Sun Jul 06 2008 05:57 PM
Accuweather	craigm	Sun Jul 06 2008 05:17 PM
Central Atlantic...Sunday	danielw	Sun Jul 06 2008 02:19 PM
Re: Tropical Storm Bertha Forms South of Cape Verde Islands	scottsvb	Sun Jul 06 2008 03:01 AM
Re: Tropical Storm Bertha Forms South of Cape Verde Islands	weatherguy08	Sun Jul 06 2008 01:25 AM
Re: Tropical Storm Bertha Forms South of Cape Verde Islands	typhoon_tip	Sun Jul 06 2008 01:17 AM
Re: Tropical Storm Bertha Forms South of Cape Verde Islands	hurricaneguy	Sun Jul 06 2008 12:19 AM
Re: Tropical Storm Bertha Forms South of Cape Verde Islands	typhoon_tip	Sat Jul 05 2008 08:59 PM
Re: Bertha... Status Quo?	Random Chaos	Sat Jul 05 2008 02:41 PM
Re: Bertha... Status Quo?	CaneTrackerInSoFl	Sat Jul 05 2008 02:32 PM
Re: Bertha... Status Quo?	flanewscameraman	Sat Jul 05 2008 02:21 PM
Re: Bertha... Status Quo?	craigm	Sat Jul 05 2008 02:04 PM
Re: Bertha... Status Quo?	DarleneCane	Sat Jul 05 2008 01:19 PM
Bertha... Status Quo?	danielw	Sat Jul 05 2008 01:41 AM
Re: Bertha strengthening?	LoisCane	Fri Jul 04 2008 11:54 PM
Bertha strengthening?	CaneTrackerInSoFl	Fri Jul 04 2008 06:55 PM
Re: Tropical Storm Bertha Forms South of Cape Verde Islands	cieldumort	Fri Jul 04 2008 07:29 AM
Re: Tropical Storm Bertha Forms South of Cape Verde Islands	typhoon_tip	Fri Jul 04 2008 03:35 AM
Re: Surprising Early Cape Verde Cyclogenesis	MichaelA	Thu Jul 03 2008 04:49 PM
Re: Surprising Early Cape Verde Cyclogenesis	JustMe	Thu Jul 03 2008 03:01 PM
Surprisingly Early Cape Verde Cyclogenesis	CoconutCandy	Thu Jul 03 2008 02:56 PM
Re: Watching Systems in the Eastern Caribbean and Far East Atlantic	cieldumort	Thu Jul 03 2008 08:27 AM
Re: Watching System in the Far East Atlantic	Random Chaos	Thu Jul 03 2008 03:27 AM
Re: Watching System in the Far East Atlantic	Hugh	Thu Jul 03 2008 02:00 AM
Re: Watching System in the Far East Atlantic	Random Chaos	Wed Jul 02 2008 11:40 PM
Re: Watching System in the Far East Atlantic	Lee-Delray	Wed Jul 02 2008 09:09 PM
Re: Watching System in the Far East Atlantic	Rich B	Wed Jul 02 2008 08:49 PM
Re: Watching System in the Far East Atlantic	cieldumort	Wed Jul 02 2008 08:38 PM

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