As of 11 a.m. Thursday morning, Tropical Depression Nine has formed in the west-central Caribbean. It's currently located about 210 miles southeast of Grand Cayman Island. It'll likely become Tropical Storm Ida today or tomorrow.
Tropical Depression Nine will be near the Cayman Islands tonight and nearing western Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula tomorrow or tomorrow night. Due to bath-like sea surface temperatures in the Gulf and prime atmospheric conditions, signs are pointing toward rapid intensification once the storm emerges into the Gulf of Mexico.
This is one system to watch closely for the United States northern Gulf coast states over the weekend into early next week. The latest track from the National Hurricane Center suggests a Category 1 or 2 hurricane nearing eastern Texas and Louisiana by Sunday night or Monday morning.
Locally heavy rainfall, mudslides, storm surge, and flooding are possible over portions of Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, across Cuba, and the Yucatan Peninsula this week. By this weekend, that threat could overspread into the coasts of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle.
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