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Tropical Storm Bertha churns through Atlantic
Lead Meteorologist, The Weather Channel
5:40 p.m. ET 7/6/2008
Both the Atlantic and eastern Pacific have active tropical systems. The Atlantic has Tropical Storm Bertha. The eastern Pacific has disorganized Tropical Depression 5-E.
Tropical Storm Bertha (60 mph) is located about 1055 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands. The storm is racing west-northwestward through the central Atlantic at 20 miles per hour and is forecast to become a hurricane late Monday night or early Tuesday morning. A gradual slowing of Bertha's forward speed and a turn to a more NW track is expected over the next couple of days.
Meanwhile, in the eastern Pacific, Tropical Depression 5-E (35 mph), located about 190 miles west of Acapulco, Mexico, has been slow to further organize off the west coast of Mexico and may never become a tropical storm. Despite this, a tropical storm watch is in effect from Lazaro Cardenas to Manzanillo.
The disturbance is expected to follow a WNW course over the next day or so, paralleling the southwest Mexican coast and then veer westward south of Cabo San Lucas. Torrential rain will be the main legacy of T.D. Five-E. Flash flooding and mudslides are likely, especially in coastal mountains.