Tropical Storm Ida strengthens over Caribbean

Globe & Mail - 7th Nov 2009

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Tropical Storm: O fficials readied Storm shelters along Mexico's Caribbean coast Saturday and told fishermen and tour operators to pull in their boats amid warnings that Tropical Storm Ida could become a hurricane as it neared the resort city of Cancun. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Ida's winds strengthened to near 110 km/h, just short of a Category 1 hurricane. A tentative forecast track predicted Ida could brush the U.S. Gulf Coast next week as a Tropical Storm. Tropical-storm warnings... Read full story at Globe & Mail

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