What's in store for Ida?
Regarding the now, Tropical Depression Ida, currently flooding out Honduras and after slamming into Nicaragua as a hurricane, this is what the models see as the potential trajectory for her future. I am bothered by the westward training, as I don't really think that is a realistic path...THE INTERACTION OF IDA W

Hurricane Ida arrives in the Caribbean
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We've got Tropical Storm Ida...
We've got Tropical Storm Ida, packing winds of 60mph, but look at this...She's expected to make it to the Gulf of Mexico and strengthen after a wet assault on Nicaragua and Honduras.~Dew

Don't turn your back on the tropics just yet
Well, looky looky, down in the Caribbean Sea, we have an area of low pressure that the National Hurricane Center has identified as having a high probability of development into a tropical cyclone. It's been a while since we have talked about anything going on in the Atlantic Basin... it's been a dud season, but here we are with a late bloomer, which is actually prese

Mooooon....
Ok, so I got into a debate with Mini-Dew the other night about the state of the moon. You see, when it is close to full, she calls it full, and I tell her that only once in every 28 day cycle is it completely full. She doesn't believe me.Outside of the one day of full moon, there are varying stages of fullness, which might appear full,