Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Bertha Moves Toward Land -- Bulls-eye marks approximate location of center of hurricane Bertha according to weather bureau, this afternoon. Moving about 10 miles per hour in a west-northwest direction the storm’s highest winds are estimated at 65 to 75 miles per hour near the center. Forecasters predicted the center of the storm would move inland near Galveston, Texas.
Bertha Moves Toward Land -- Bulls-eye marks approximate location of center of hurricane Bertha according to weather bureau, this afternoon. Moving about 10 miles per hour in a west-northwest direction the storm’s highest winds are estimated at 65 to 75 miles per hour near the center. Forecasters predicted the center of the storm would move inland near Galveston, Texas.
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Bertha Moves Toward Land -- Bulls-eye marks approximate location of center of hurricane Bertha according to weather bureau, this afternoon. Moving about 10 miles per hour in a west-northwest direction the storm’s highest winds are estimated at 65 to 75 miles per hour near the center. Forecasters predicted the center of the storm would move inland near Galveston, Texas.

Associated Press · [ca. August 1957]

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