{"id":777551,"date":"2026-07-22T09:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/777551\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:09:10","slug":"tropical-storm-bertha-impacting-northern-gulf-coast-see-forecast-map-and-its-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/777551\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Bertha impacting northern Gulf Coast. See forecast map and its path."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Storm Bertha was bringing rain to large swaths of the northern Gulf Coast early Wednesday as its projected path sparked watches and warnings.<\/p>\n<p>Bertha was moving westward at 6 mph and that general motion was expected to continue through Friday, the National Hurricane Center said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the forecast track,&#8221; the Miami-based center said, &#8220;Bertha will move near or along the northern Gulf Coast during the next couple of days,&#8221; adding that &#8220;maximum sustained winds have decreased to near 50 mph&#8221; and &#8220;gradual weakening is forecast to continue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Map shows projected path<\/p>\n<p>Bertha, the second named storm of the Atlantic\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/2026-atlantic-hurricane-season-outlook-noaa-forecast\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hurricane season<\/a>, was forecast to stick close to the coast.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ts-bertha-1.png#.png\" alt=\"ts-bertha-1.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>  Warnings and watches in effect<\/p>\n<p>A tropical storm warning was posted Tuesday from the Bay\/Gulf County line in Florida to Morgan City, Louisiana, as well as for New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain.<\/p>\n<p>A tropical storm watch was posted for west of Morgan City to Cameron, Louisiana, and Lake Maurepas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tropical storm conditions will continue spreading across portions of the northern Gulf Coast within the warning area through the day,&#8221; the center said early Wednesday. &#8220;Tropical storm conditions are possible within the watch area in Louisiana by tonight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bertha is expected to produce total rainfall amounts of 1 to 4 inches with isolated higher totals to 6 inches through Thursday along the central Gulf Coast from western Florida through southern Louisiana,&#8221; the center noted. &#8220;This rainfall may produce isolated flash flooding, especially in urban areas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The system could also produce storm surge, raising waters up to 4 feet in some locations along the coast.<\/p>\n<p>Bertha comes weeks after the 2026 hurricane season&#8217;s first named storm,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/tropical-storm-arthur-first-hurricane-season-texas-gulf-coast\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tropical Storm Arthur<\/a>, which made landfall in June along the Gulf Coast of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p>\n                Go deeper with The Free Press\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Bertha was bringing rain to large swaths of the northern Gulf Coast early Wednesday as its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[5183,23,2808,72324,6098,3,1022,53576,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-777551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-alabama","tag-america","tag-florida","tag-gulf-coast-of-the-united-states","tag-louisiana","tag-news","tag-texas","tag-tropical-storm","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}