What grade/category is hurricane bertha?

Question

is a tropical storm worse than a graded storm or whatever

Answer 1

A tropical storm is week, it is not classified as a hurricane. Last time I checked it was a catagory 3.

Take a look at the article here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25565250?GT1...

hope i helped!

Answer 2

Storm Summary

Winds in knots, pressure in millibars, category is based on Saffir-Simpson scale.

Name= Hurricane BERTHA

Date=24 JUL- 2 AUG

Wind=70

Pressure=973

Category=1

For info on other storms summary ( Table is given) , visit :

http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atla...

Answer 3

As of late July 5, it was a tropical storm.

Answer 4

As of 11am EDT Sunday, tt's a tropical storm, weaker than a hurricane, so it would be below Category 1.  Maybe call it a two-thirds.

Answer 5

A tropical storm, but its likely to strengthen to a cat.1 in the next few days.

Answer 6

Right now Bertha is a tropical storm.  

There are no categories within tropical storm.  It describes a storm that has winds anywhere between about 39-74 miles per hour.

Hurricanes (wind 75+) are divided up that way into 5 parts, each describing increasing wind speed and generally lowering surface pressure.

edit 7/7:  Now it's a hurricane, cat 3.  Winds are 115 mph sustained with stronger gusts, and the cutoff for cat 3 is 111 mph.  It's probably headed to near Bermuda, and then will stay out in the open Atlantic not hitting anything else.  

It has a very distinct eye, which is the center where a clear spot appears because the intense updrafts that ring the low pressure end up sinking straight down into the center.  The downdraft causes the clouds to disappear, that's why the eye is pretty clear.  

Whenever a hurricane meteorologist sees an eye form, they usually feel that it has reached hurricane status, and they will look for more information to confirm it.  But an eye forming is usually a pretty good indicator that a tropical storm has crossed the threshold to become a hurricane.

To answer you extra question, a tropical storm is weaker in terms of winds and pressure than a hurricane which does get grades or categories from 1-5.  A cat 3,4, or 5 is called an intense hurricane and notable storms in this range are now Bertha, Katrina, Rita, Wilma, Andrew (caused nearly comparable damage as the Katrina disaster, but in So. Fla in 1992).

But a tropical storm can dump as much rain as a hurricane and flooding damage can be just as bad.  So sometimes it doesn't need to be a hurricane to cause a big disaster.  Tropical Storm Allison hit Texas in '01 and dropped as much as 40 inches of rain over the course of a few days.  The flood damage was really bad.