Ida Rather Not Have More Rain
Excuse the punning, but it looks like Ida has formed in the southern Gulf of Mexico, and she could be heading our way. Ida became a tropical storm late Wednesday and has since hit land over Nicaragua and Honduras, reducing her intensity to a tropical depression.
Once she emerges over water, she is expected to return to tropical storm state, and her path is taking her north over the Gulf of Mexico towards the Florida panhandle. While nothing is certain (the storm wouldn’t make it to the US coast until next Wednesday at the earliest), there’s a possibility Georgia could see some tropical weather this year after all.
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November 6th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Sadly, I’ve disliked your conclusions lately, as in “cold, wet winter” and “Ida rather not have more rain”. Ida rather have a little more hope (as in sunny but cold) but I appreciate your logical distilling of the reports/forecasts.
November 6th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
The models and the official forecast are predicting that Ida is going to move east somewhere over north Florida in response to high pressure building after Monday/Tuesday’s rain in Georgia. So we may miss tropical weather. Just as well, in my opinion.