The new hurricane season starts with Boris and Bertha. Boris passed without hurting anyone, but Bertha blew out suddenly. Boris erupted in the Pacific and went to the western coast of Mexico and caused no damage.

Bertha formed last Thursday near the Cape Verde islands and set a record for the farthest east that a tropical storm has formed in July.

It quickly erupted into a powerful Category 3 hurricane on Monday, with winds of 190km/h. The tropical storm is moving across the mid-Atlantic and threatens Bermuda by Saturday. The U.S. is expected to escape unscathed.

There are fears for a lot of hurricane activity, as forecasters predict. By the peak of the season, around middle August to mid-October, it seems that tropical seas temperatures will reach the warmth level necessary for providing fuel for the hurricanes.

After it seemed to be the first major hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic storm season, Bertha weakened as it headed for Bermuda on Tuesday, a day after it seemed to be terribly damaging for the places it was to pass through.

Hurricane Bertha dropped to Category 1 on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, with winds of 85 mph. It could weaken in the next 24 hours as forecasters said that dry air, cool waters and unfavorable atmospheric wind conditions did not permit the hurricane to develop.

At 11 p.m. on Tuesday, the center of the storm was 580 miles northeast of Leeward Islands and about 840 miles southeast of Bermuda.