This is a Infra-red color sattelite movie of Hurricane Bertha. Bertha's winds were at one point as strong as 115mph which is a category 3 on the Saffir/Simpson Scale.



This is also an Infra-red movie of Hurricane but it is from a differnt perspective. Notice how Bertha was moving to the west-north west then she suddenly took a turn directly north and made landfall at Topsail beach.





This Nexrad Doppler Radar picture of hurricane Bertha, shows a strong band of rain getting ready to move ashore. The band with the yellow and orange colors contain the strongest winds and heaviest rains. Doppler radar is useful in the short-term forecasting of hurricanes due to its ability to actually see inside the storm. It can see wind speed and velocity, estimate how much rain has fallen over the past hour and show exactly where the precipitation is occuring.





This Nexrad Doppler Radar picture clearly shows the eye of hurricane Bertha as it makes it way towards the North Carolina Coast. The heaviest rainband with the strongest winds is right over Topsail Beach. Most wind damage would be occuring in the next half hour under that yellow band. Once the eye of Bertha comes ashore, her winds will diminish greatly and it will eventually be downgraded to a tropical storm. So far this year, hurricane Bertha is the only land falling hurricane.





This is a sattelite image of hurricane Luis, which was one of 1995's worst hurricanes. The center of Luis is getting ready to make landfall on the Leeward Islands. The name "Luis" has been retired from the hurricane list due to the amount of damage it caused. Luis was just one of a record 19 named storms that occured in the 1995 hurricane season.