Bryan Norcross: The Atlantic goes quiet after Bertha fades away
Tropical Storm Bertha has formally dissipated after bringing rain to Texas on Thursday. We’re wanting again in any respect the storm’s impacts from begin to end.
Updated at 9:15 am on Friday, July 24, 2026.
The remnants of former Tropical Storm Bertha have moved into northern Mexico. It’s now a weak disturbance over the mountains.
A number of tropical downpours accompanied Bertha’s trek throughout South Texas. An remoted sturdy cell induced some flooding within the southwest suburbs of Houstonand a pair pockets of heavy rain fell outdoors of Saint Anthony. Otherwise, rain was gentle.
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Just earlier than midnight Wednesday night time, a sustained wind of 75 mph with gusts of about 82 mph have been measured on an oil platform about 120 miles south of Cameron, Louisiana. The wind instrument is 75 ft above the Gulf, in order that depth isn’t from a “surface” wind. But there’s a components to estimate what the official measurement at floor degree would have been. The calculation comes out to about 68 mph.
Bertha’s wind gusts over the Gulf.
(NWS/NHC/NOAA)
Bertha’s bottom was producing a lot of the wind. Even yesterday when the storm was in its dying section, winds gusted over 40 mph on the coast outdoors Houston.
The level is, though sturdy winds weren’t standard with Bertha, there have been intense bands, particularly over the water. Remember, the system is a tropical storm if it has a well-defined circulation with non-transient winds of not less than 40 mph.
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Satellite exhibits the remnants of Tropical Storm Bertha shifting by Mexico.
(CIRA/CSU / NOAA)
Looking forward
The Child continues to create circumstances hostile to growth throughout the Caribbean and into the tropical Atlantic, with the water temperatures within the deep tropics abnormally cool besides. Going ahead, we’ll preserve centered on the nice and cozy water band from the northern Gulf throughout Florida and into the Atlantic because the potential storm zone.
A quiet Atlantic
(National Hurricane Center/NOAA)
Nothing is forecast to develop for the foreseeable future – into the start of August, not less than.
