Hurricane Bertha update: Bermuda will escape worst of storm
July 11, 2008
The US National Hurricane Center's latest report has Hurricane Bertha about 350 miles off Bermuda.
Image: NASA Earth Observatory
Bermuda should see the worst of the storm on Saturday and Sunday - predictions say it will be closest in the early hours of Sunday morning, passing 153 nautical miles east-south-east of the island.
This doesn't mean Bermuda is safe - it is already being affected by 'large swells and high surf'. FCO advice is to 'monitor Bertha's progress closely and listen to advice from the local authorities'. Check weather.bm for updates.
Bertha is a category one hurricane, so it doesn't have the ferocity of Dean or Felix last season. But it has broken a record of its own: according to NASA's Earth Observatory, "no hurricane has ever formed so far east before August 1."
Nathan Midgley
