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Re: Tropical Storm Bertha Forms South of Cape Verde Islands
      Thu Jul 03 2008 11:35 PM

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

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