According to an infrared satellite image from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Hurricane Center shows Tropical Storm Bertha moving towards warmer water and gaining strength quickly.

Hurricane Bertha has strengthened to a Category 3 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity by 5 p.m. (2100 GMT), informed the National Hurricane Center. The center of the tropical storm is at roughly 730 miles east-northeast of the Northern Leeward Islands and about 1,150 miles southeast of Bermuda.

Despite the fact that it is still far from land and nobody can tell where it will hit, the hurricane has sustained winds of 115 miles an hour (185 km per hour). It is swiftly changing directions, heading towards west-northwest across the Atlantic Ocean hundreds of miles from the United States, weather predictors notified.

Having intensified quickly into a hurricane, Bertha is said to become the season’s first hurricane. It is the second named storm this year.

Forecasters alerted the residents with regard to flash flooding and mudslides. The Mexican government withdrew a storm warning for the seashore between Lazaro Cardenas and Acapulco.