Hurricane Bertha is strengthening as it takes travels WNW at 17 mph throughout the Atlantic Ocean. Bertha’s current track keeps it east of the United States and no hurricane warnings or watches have been issued for any land areas.

Bertha is the first hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. At the start of the season, last month, we had our first tropical storm and things have been fairly quiet in the Atlantic since then. However, the height of hurricane season is mid-August to mid-October.

Source: National Hurricane Center

Tropical Storm Bertha is projected to go across the Atlantic Ocean. The centered path currently has Tropical Storm Bertha avoiding the Caribbean. Bertha is headed west at 21 mph and has maximum sustained winds of 50 mph. Tropical Storm force winds are extended out 105 miles from the center of the storm. Bertha does not pose an immediate threat to any land.

Source: National Hurricane Center.

The first day of the 2008 Hurricane Season is here and it already has tropical storm to welcome it. Before the season could officially begin Tropical Storm Arthur was moving across the Yucatan Peninsula. The storm has not weakened into a tropical depression and is expected to continue as a depression through Tuesday.

Forecasters have predicted that this season will be above average. There forecast calls for 15 named storms, 8 of those being hurricanes, and 4 out of the 8 hurricanes becoming intense. As the report states, these are forecasts and predictions and they are not set in stone. That being said, Floridians know the drill and should prepare wisely for the hurricane season.

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Just one week after the end of this hurricane season the National Hurricane Center is reporting that there is a tropical disturbance east of Puerto Rico that may form into a Tropical Storm or a Subtropical Storm within the next 24 hours. It is not unusual to have tropical disturbances occur after the official end of hurricane season. This has happened in previous years ,including in the record setting 2005 sesaon when we had Tropical Storm Zeta that formed in late December.

Tropical Depression Ingrid is heading out on a more northern path in the Atlantic. What was once a Tropical Storm is once again Tropical Depression. The winds of change continues in the Atlantic. The National Hurricane expect the storm to continue to weaken, which would be great.

Tropical Depression Ingrid is traveling west northwest at 10 mph. Maximum sustained winds are 35 mph.

Tropical Storm Ingrid is on a northwest track through the Atlantic Ocean. Tropical Storm Ingrid was upgraded from Tropical Depression # 8 and is expected to downgrade to a Tropical Depression later this week. Forecasters do expect Ingrid to intensify slightly during the next 24 hours. But as you know a forecast are just projections and nothing really is set in stone. Not many thought that Hurricane Humberto would have strengthened so quickly into hurricane over night, but it most certainly did.

Right now the Tropical Storm Ingrid is too far away for us to know if it will be a threat to the Florida or the rest of the United States.

Source: National Hurricane Center

Tropical Storm Humberto is churning in the Gulf of Mexico. Humberto is expected to be a big maker in Texas, where it is expected to make landfall. The storm is also forecasted to travel through parts of Louisiana and Mississippi as a Tropical Depression.

In the Atlantic there is also Tropical Depression #8. Tropical Depression # 8 is traveling westward through the Atlantic and is expected to strengthen as it continues on its track. The Depression is could pose a threat to United States; right now it is too far off to be certain.

Source: National Hurricane Center

Tropical Storm Gabrielle is heading northwest and is expected to go along the coastlines of North Carolina and Virginia Sunday. The forecast has Tropical Storm Gabriel going along the eastern coastline and then heading northeast toward into the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 11pm advisory posted by the National Hurricane Center, Tropical Storm Gabrielle had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph.

Source: National Hurricane Center

An area of low pressure is expected to develop further into a tropical depression by the end of today. Current forecasts have the track of this system moving westward toward the United States. An air force plane is also scheduled to fly into the system this afternoon.

Hurricane Felix, an Atlantic storm, came ashore south of where many forecasts had expected. Hurricane Felix made landfall as a category 5 hurricane in northern Nicaragua. The storm has continued to travel northwest across the Central America through Nicaragua, and Honduras. Hurricane Felix has now weakened into a Tropical Storm and forecasters expect it continue to weaken as it travels across Central America.

Coming from the Pacific Ocean, is Hurricane Henriette. Hurricane Henriette made landfall in western Mexico as a minimal hurricane and is expected to travel north and continue to weaken.

Source: National Hurricane Center