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45 mph and 115°F: Tropical Storm Bertha Hits Louisiana Under a Rare Storm-Heat Siege
The season's second named storm made a slow afternoon landfall in St. Bernard Parish — and met New Orleans under an extreme heat warning at the same time.
O que sabíamos inicialmente
- Bertha's center made landfall around 2 p.m. on Wednesday, July 22, in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, with sustained winds of 45 mph.
- The storm made a second U.S. landfall along the Louisiana–Texas border on Thursday, July 23, then degenerated into a trough.
- New Orleans was under both a tropical storm warning and an extreme heat warning simultaneously, with heat indices forecast to reach 115°F.
- Wind shear kept Bertha's heaviest rainfall offshore and limited inland damage.
Então ainda em aberto
- Whether any of the local response measures cited in the HeyDay narration — floodgate closures, extra pump staffing, parish states of emergency, university class cancellations — actually occurred.
- Verified storm surge totals along the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts.
- Whether the moisture plume the HeyDay video flagged for the Mid-Atlantic and Carolinas materializes later this week.
O que dissemos que iríamos acompanhar
- How the remnant trough's rainfall plays out across the Gulf South and lower Mississippi Valley in the days after landfall.
- Whether New Orleans' cooling-center network and outage response were activated by any Bertha-related power losses.
- The next named storm of the 2026 Atlantic season and whether it inherits the same storm-plus-heat setup.