Tropical Storm Bertha is bringing breezy conditions and scattered rain to Southeast Texas. Here’s what to know about flights, beach plans, flooding and the weekend forecast.

Tropical Storm Bertha is expected to bring heavy rain, strong winds, and the risk of flash flooding to Houston, despite not being a hurricane.

Record high of 102° expected Wednesday breaking the record of 101° from 2023

Bertha will bring winds, rain and lower temperatures to southeast Texas Thursday

Tropical Storm Bertha has made a second landfall near the Texas-Louisiana state line, ending its slow crawl across the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Record high of 102° expected Wednesday breaking the record of 101° from 2023

Hurricane Fausto has formed in the eastern Pacific far from Mexico’s Baja California peninsula and poses no threat to land.

A low-pressure system is developing off the east coast of Florida, with the National Hurricane Center giving it a 20% chance of becoming a tropical storm within the next week. Although dry air and wind shear may inhibit its development, the disturbance could still bring increased rain to the Gulf Coast by mid-week as it moves west. If the system strengthens into a named storm, it will be called Bertha. The extent of rainfall remains uncertain and will depend on the disturbance's development.

The Pentagon says U.S. military forces have boarded a third sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking it from the Caribbean Sea in an effort to target illicit oil connected to Venezuela.

ORLANDO, Fla. Even though the six-month Atlantic hurricane season lasts as long as a typical Major League Baseball season, a Florida congresswoman thinks it needs to be longer. In 2020, three tropical storms Arthur, Bertha and Cristobal formed in mid-May and the beginning of June, she said. There has been only one named hurricane before June since the satellite era started in 1966 Hurricane Alma in 1970. I dont think there is any reason to lengthen the hurricane season, since we havent had a hurricane in May in 50 years," Klotzbach said in an email. Hurricane season was also never intended to include ... all of the activity, just the majority of it," said McNoldy, who works for the Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science.