Tropical Storm Ida is slowly strengthening, as it heads north-northwest towards an encounter with Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Infrared satellite loops show that Ida's heavy thunderstorms are expanding
Weather Underground Forecast for Sunday, November 08, 2009.
Active tropical storm activity will persist over the Caribbean Sea on Sunday as multiple weather features hover over the region. Tropical storm Ida has lost some of its strength due to its northward track over Honduras and Nicaragua. However, the system will jump back into the warm waters of the Caribbean as it continues moving up the Yucatan Peninsula. Counter-clockwise flow around this system will continue picking up ample moisture from the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, which will trigger heavy showers and thunderstorms along the surrounding coasts. Expect wet weather from Ida to stretch from Nicaragua to eastern Mexico. Additionally, another area of low pressure hovering south of Mexico will continue picking up moisture from the Pacific Ocean, and will spread scattered showers over southern Mexico and Guatemala.
In the east, a lingering frontal boundary will extend over the Great Antilles. This will bring another day of scattered showers and thunderstorms over the Lesser Antilles, with heavier showers and thunderstorms developing over Cuba.
Talk about a welcome sight! It rained on this date in 1914 in Bagdad, California, breaking the United States record for longest rainless streak at 767 days. Also on this date, the U.S. Signal Corps Weather Service issued its very first storm warning in 1870.