Ida no longer hurricane, Gulf warnings downgraded

By Associated Press and staff reports

Posted: Nov 9, 2009 10:47 AM
Updated: Nov 9, 2009 11:43 AM

    Ida is no longer a hurricane as it loses strength over the water on its way to a landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast sometime early Tuesday.

   Forecasters late Monday morning said Ida was expected to come ashore in the Mobile, Ala., area.

   The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami downgraded Ida to a tropical storm Monday morning after its top sustained winds dropped to near 70 mph.

   Hurricane warnings were dropped along the Gulf Coast and replaced with tropical storm warnings that stretch from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle.

  Ida was expected to have only minor impact on weather in the ArkLaTex: There would be some breeze and isolate showers, forecasters said.

  The center of Ida on Monday morning was located about 185 miles south-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River and moving north-northwest near 17 mph.

   State government offices were closed today in New Orleans, as well as Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes as a precaution.

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