{"id":346769,"date":"2026-07-21T01:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346769\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T01:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:40:07","slug":"tropical-storm-bertha-forms-off-the-coast-of-florida-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346769\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Bertha forms off the coast of Florida: What to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(WLOS) \u2014 Tropical Storm Bertha formed on Monday evening, making it the second named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season.<\/p>\n<p>As of 8 p.m. Monday, July 20, Bertha is located about 110 miles south of Panama City, Florida, moving slowly to the WNW at 3 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Bertha is expected to take a more westward track, staying close to the Northern Gulf Coast over most of the week. Tropical storm conditions are possible along the Florida Panhandle through Tuesday, July 21.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/weather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NEWS 13 WEATHER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A tropical storm watch is in effect for parts of Florida westward to southeastern Louisiana, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/gulf-tropical-depression-flooding-c5f0b7264dad58ae7450fdd87436ec09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reporting by The Associated Press<\/a>. A storm surge watch also has been posted from the mouth of the Mississippi River to the Alabama-Florida border on the Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Potentially life-threatening storm surges of up to four feet could occur in portions of the Louisiana and Mississippi coastlines, the AP reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WLOS) \u2014 Tropical Storm Bertha formed on Monday evening, making it the second named storm of the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-346769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}