{"id":217833,"date":"2026-07-21T21:14:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/what-will-bertha-bring-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T21:14:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:14:05","slug":"what-will-bertha-bring-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/what-will-bertha-bring-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"What will Bertha bring? &#8211; USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Daily Briefing. <em><strong>Felecia Wellington Radel<\/strong><\/em> here, bringing you the news to know on Tuesday. Start with these reads:<br \/>Bertha, the second named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, <a href=\/story\/news\/weather\/2026\/07\/21\/tropical-storm-bertha-gulf-coast-updates\/90986826007\/ data-t-l=:b|e|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>intensified from a tropical depression to a tropical storm<\/a> Monday, according to the National Hurricane Center.<br \/>Tropical Storm Bertha continued its slow slog Tuesday morning and <a href=\/story\/news\/weather\/2026\/07\/20\/tropical-storm-bertha-path-tracker\/90979522007\/ rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=_blank data-t-l=:b|e|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>remains on track<\/a> to bring heavy rain, storm surge, and gusty winds to several states along the Gulf Coast over the next couple of days.<br \/>Other parts of the United States are <a href=\/story\/news\/weather\/2026\/07\/20\/extreme-weather-storms-flooding-heat-wave-us\/90981104007\/ rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=_blank data-t-l=:b|e|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>also seeing extreme weather<\/a>. A series of potent thunderstorms could bring flash flooding to the Midwest and East Coast, forecasters say, as the middle of the country contends with a potentially record-breaking heat dome today and lingering, toxic wildfire smoke.<br \/><small><em>Have feedback on the Daily Briefing?\u00a0Shoot\u00a0Nicole an email at\u00a0NFallert@usatoday.com<\/em><\/small>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMisAFBVV95cUxNN1UzR0VMaUFoTlB5b3QyeHdDZ2ltMXVCVTJyT2F6REF1VC1mQ1BTS01GM0F5VlpVTVBGUHVFMV92QTBpQjFTQnhNZThidnFtdDM1Z045ZjBLdHppY1Z1UmZpVzJ2WnJTX3F0R1dVbGxCQ3lRWmJDdWM5Y3V4YXlqWnQyUmZNXzhCa1FnZEtVOWoxand2c0RVTzZfaC16NWE0bTltWlppTDJ0QU5PLWFZcw?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Daily Briefing. Felecia Wellington Radel here, bringing you the news to know on Tuesday. Start with these reads:Bertha, the second named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, intensified from a tropical depression to a tropical storm Monday, according to the National Hurricane Center.Tropical Storm Bertha continued its slow slog Tuesday morning and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}