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Jul 17, 2008 10:48 am US/Eastern

Bertha Continues To Move Away From Land

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As Tropical Storm Bertha continues to chug southeastward across the Atlantic a tropical storm in the Pacific could soon become a hurricane.

At 11:00 a.m. AST, the center of Bertha was located near latitude 34.2 North and longitude 58.4 West, or about 390 miles east-northeast of Bermuda.

Maximum sustained winds remain near 60 mph and little change in strength is expected in the next 24 hours.

Bertha is moving toward the east-southeast near 9 mph and it's expected to turn to the northeast sometime on Friday.

Wednesday Bertha set a record as the longest surviving tropical storm on record for the month of July in the Atlantic basin.

The previous longest-lived storm, known as Storm No. 2, occurred in 1960 and lasted just over 12 days; Bertha is entering its 13th day.

Monday Bertha's winds and torrential rains battered Bermuda, knocking out electricity to more than 4-thousand people on the Atlantic tourist island.

The streets of Bermuda's capital, Hamilton, were empty and all ferries and flights were canceled. There were no reports of injuries.

Ron Smith, a carpenter who moved to Bermuda about a year ago from the English city of Stoke-on-Trent, described the broad storm's passage as "harrowing."

"You could see the waves just crashing down and the winds were ferocious, still are," said Smith, one of dozens who rode out the storm in The Pickled Onion pub and restaurant in Hamilton.

Bertha became the Atlantic season's first hurricane on July 7.

Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center dispatched a Hurricane Hunter plane into a tropical wave about 300 miles east of the Windward Islands. Reports from the center of the disturbance indicated that it had become less organized and the chance for development had decreased.

In the Pacific, forecasters say Tropical Storm Fausto, with maximum sustained winds near 60 mph, could soon develop into a hurricane. Fausto is moving west near 16 mph and its center is located about 530 miles south of Manzanillo, Mexico.

Farther out in the Pacific, Hurricane Elida is beginning to feel the effects of cooler waters and its cloud pattern has become less distinct. Elida, with maximum sustained winds near 100 mph, is about 795 miles west-southwest of the tip of Baja California, Mexico. 

 

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