{"id":381027,"date":"2026-07-21T15:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/381027\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T15:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:08:13","slug":"tropical-storm-bertha-impacting-the-gulf-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/381027\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Bertha impacting the Gulf Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Storm Bertha continues to move very slowly NW 5 mph through the NE Gulf of Mexico.  Top winds are 50 mph. <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Satellite and radar\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5c343c46-9fb5-4c49-ad89-cd702b805fd5-Satelliteandradar.png\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The forecast path curves Bertha Westward, with landfall likely near Louisiana late Wednesday or Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Tropical Stats and Track\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/7feb3c7a-b69e-4250-8c18-47d3abedd9f3-TropicalStatsandTrack.png\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bertha is forecast to strengthen a little more with top winds peaking at 60 mph today before gradually weakening mid-late week.  Tropical storm watches and warning are in effect along its path.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Tropical alerts\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/7e3b46d4-d3fb-43f6-894d-45958daa20f7-Tropicalalerts.png\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A storm surge watch is in effect with storm surge up to 2-4 feet near where the storm makes landfall.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Storm surge alerts\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/498f1613-9a20-43e1-943e-b19545e95280-Stormsurgealerts.png\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>1-3 foot storm surge is likely as far east as the Florida Big Bend area.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Storm Surge Forecast\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/c9e11902-a61b-48c6-866b-8213d0af344f-StormSurgeForecast.png\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Most of the heavier rainfall is expected to stay offshore.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Hour by Hour\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/edaf2bd8-9da6-4ef2-9737-7f73f5b7b22c-HourbyHour.png\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>However, a general 2-4 inches of rainfall is expected right along the coast with isolated 6&#8243; totals possible.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Forecast rainfall\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/49473acc-7b37-48da-be7f-71dddeb59395-Forecastrainfall.png\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Bertha continues to move very slowly NW 5 mph through the NE Gulf of Mexico. Top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-381027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}