Tropical Storm Bertha threatens Gulf Coast as Hurricane Fausto forms in Pacific

As the Atlantic hurricane season deepens into summer, Tropical Storm Bertha has emerged from the Gulf of Mexico as a reminder that nature's rhythms do not pause for human convenience. Forming Monday evening some 110 miles south of Panama City, Florida, the storm is drifting westward toward southeast Louisiana, where it is expected to make landfall by Wednesday, carrying with it the compounding threats of storm surge, heavy rainfall, and damaging winds. Simultaneously, Hurricane Fausto has organized far out in the eastern Pacific — powerful but, for now, mercifully distant from populated shores