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Ida continues to weaken and lose tropical characteristics.

Posted by Dave Osterberg under Daily updates

The Gulf of Mexico has done its job on Ida. This morning Ida has weakened to a 50mph tropical storm and the main threat will continue to be heavy rain over the panhandle and areas north into Alabama, and Georgia. As of 5AM Ida was about 60 miles south of Mobile, Alabama and moving to the north at around 9 mph. Once it officially makes landfall, it will likely slow down and drift east before completely falling apart. I know I said this yesterday, but I am sure gald this isn’t August. We probably would have been looking at a major hurricane making landfall. Hopefully Ida can either completely fall apart quickly or continue to move NE so that it doesn’t sit and dump too much rain in the southeast.