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Tropical Storm Ida – Day 4 — Why Now?
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Tropical Storm Ida – Day 4

Hurricane IdaPosition: 19.5 N 84.4 W [ 6 PM CST 0000 UTC].
Movement: North-Northwest [345°] near 10 mph [17 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 70 mph [110 kph].
Wind Gusts: 85 mph [135 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 140 miles [220 km].
Minimum central pressure: 990 mb.

It is 180 miles [290 km] East-Southeast of Cozumel, Mexico.

Tropical Storm Warnings are now in effect for Grand Cayman Island, the Pinar del Rio province of Cuba, and the Yucatan Peninsula from Punta Allen northward to San Felipe.

A Hurricane Watch is in effect for the Yucatan Peninsula from Tulum to Cabo Catoche.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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2 comments

1 Steve Bates { 11.07.09 at 9:42 pm }

Bryan, do you think you are you going to get tropical weather this late in the year?
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2 Bryan { 11.07.09 at 10:31 pm }

We got smacked by Kate in 1985 even later, but the Gulf has cooled off from a string of cold fronts and they are predicting a trough building across the northern Gulf that will take it east, if it doesn’t just absorb it.

All of the tracking is weird, but if it comes, it won’t be much more than tropical storm strength. This is why El Niño is our friend.

The spread seems to be New Orleans to Panama City, with my little town the current target.