2009.11.04
Yes, there's still an Atlantic tropical season going on
Tropical Storm Ida has formed in the Carribean near the Central American coast. It will likely soon move over Nicaragua and Guatemala, and though the National Hurricane Center is giving it some chance of regaining tropical storm strength later this week as it nears the Gulf of Mexico, there's a good chance it will rain itself out over the higher terrain of those countries. Late season tropical systems flooding the higher terrain of Central America can be very deadly, the extreme example being the 11,000-plus killed in 1998's Hurricane Mitch.
While Ida is unlikely to affect the U.S. as an organized tropical system, there's some chance its subtropical moisture could get pulled into the U.S. as new Pacific cold fronts and low-pressure systems move across in the next 7-10 days or so.








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