Right now, Hurricane Bertha is a reintensifying Category 1 over the open Atlantic. But on Monday, the storm rapidly intensified to Category 3 or possible Category 4 status before a subsequent rapid weakening occurred yesterday. Bertha was odd to begin with--having formed extremely far east for so early in the season, or indeed, for any time during the season--and becoming a July major hurricane was yet another remarkable feat. All of which makes Bertha a particularly troubling storm, as I write over at The Daily Green:
But perhaps even more worrisome is this recent appearance of very intense hurricanes in July, a month that traditionally has not featured many of them. Says Holland: "It is notable that we have had a remarkable run of July storms, which over the past decade have been running more than 50% above the previous average." Technically, given her origins so close to the African ...
