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Major California airports are facing delays Wednesday morning as Tropical Storm Bertha slams the Gulf Coast and heads westward.
Flight Aware’s Misery Map showed numerous flights from San Francisco and Los Angeles impacted during the morning rush hour from 7 to 11 a.m., while the rest of the country also saw upheaval.
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About 28 flights from Los Angeles International Airport and other area airports have been classified under the tracker’s “Misery” tag that indicates delays or cancellations.
Meanwhile, 22 flights from San Francisco International Airport and other Bay Area airports were delayed, with two canceled.
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field Airport are currently facing the worst flight delays, and cancellations mix across the nation, with more than 80 flights facing misery.
Bertha is forecasted to batter Florida and Louisiana with rain, flooding, and wind.
Communities on the US Gulf Coast distributed sandbags and closed beaches as Tropical Storm Bertha threatened to bring flooding and strong winds Wednesday from the Florida Panhandle to Louisiana.
Bertha was forecast to make landfall Wednesday night in the coastal and lightly populated part of Louisiana southeast of New Orleans, with wind as the biggest threat, according to Michael Buchanan, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Louisiana.
Early Wednesday, the storm was centered about 145 miles west-southwest of Panama City, Florida, and 75 miles east of the mouth of the Mississippi River. It was moving west at 6 mph with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said.
A tropical storm warning was in effect from the line between Bay and Gulf counties in Florida west to Morgan City, Louisiana, as well as for metropolitan New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain, the hurricane center said.
Storm surges up to 4 feet were possible in Louisiana from the Mississippi River mouth to the Alabama-Mississippi state line, with smaller surges in parts of Florida and Alabama, forecasters said.
Rain between 2 and 4 inches could fall from western Florida to the southern Louisiana coastline, with higher amounts in scattered areas that could cause flash flooding in urban areas.
Bertha was expected to weaken as it pushes into Texas, forecasters said.
The tropical storm is not expected to affect California directly but will impact transit inbound from other states.
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