TROPICAL STORM BERTHA

A hurricane is a giant spiraling tropical storms that pick up wind speeds of 160 miles an hour.

CHARACTERISTICS OF A HURRICANE

• • Hurricanes:
• • Form over tropical oceans
• • Sustained winds up to 350 km/h
• Low air pressure and forms in the tropics

How it forms
Hurricanes start in warm waters near the equator, As the warm air continues to rise, "the surrounding air swirls in to take its place. As the warmed, moist air rises and cools off, the water in the air forms clouds."

A hurricane can release 2.4 trillion gallons of water a day and hurricanes are also known as cyclones and typhoons.

Hurricane Bertha was both the longest lived and easternmost developing July tropical storm on record

It formed July/3/2008 it dissipated July/21/2008
There was 3 fatalities
With wind of 120 miles an hour

Bertha intensified into a major hurricane -a category3 or higher.

On July 20th hurricane Bertha decreased to a tropical storm.shortly after it transition extratropical cyclone

Additional hurricane Bertha was the longest lived tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin since Ivan in 2004

In North Carolina at least 60 people had to be rescued from the rough seas over a two day span. 4 people were major injured but turned out fine.

The system produced 4.77 inches of rain fall on the island of Bermuda. Making it the 10th wettest storming records history in that location.