Tropical Storm Bertha is briskly moving westward and is forecast to strengthen. Bertha's maximum sustained winds are near 50 mph (85 kph), and forecasters said it could gradually strengthen further over the next few days.
At 11:00 a.m. today the second tropical storm of the 2008 Atlantic Hurricane season was about 1185 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands and was moving west at about 21 mph (33 kph).
It was expected to proceed on a general west-northwest track with a gradual decrease in forward speed. As Bertha remains over the waters of the Central Tropical Atlantic it is much too early to determine if Bertha will eventually affect any land areas.
Some computer forecasting models predicted Bertha's top winds would reach the 74 mph (119 kph) threshold to become a hurricane in three or four days.
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