Maximum sustained winds have decreased to near 35 miles per hour, with higher gusts.
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Tropical Storm Ida has been dealing with wind shear and appeared somewhat shapeless on imagery from NASA’s Aqua satellite on September 23.
Ida is still in the Central Atlantic Ocean and is no threat to land.
Tropical Storm Ida is forecast to move northward in the Atlantic, with little strengthening predicted over the next two days. A gradual turn to the north should begin tonight, according to NHC forecasters.
As for intensity, the GFDL, which brings Ida to hurricane strength in 4 days, remains an outlier and is discounted as a reasonable solution.
Because Ida is expected to stay a weak storm – if it remains a named storm at all – computer models have altered its path and take it westward at a quicker pace starting late this weekend. After day 3, spaghetti plots forecast that Ida will turn to the west and have an increase in forward speed.
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As of early Thursday it was an area of disorganized rain and storms over the western Caribbean Sea. We will continue to closely watch this system.
