After not having an active storm since October the 10th, the Atlantic Ocean has come alive once more with the all new Tropical Depression Eleven. Air Force Hurricane Hunters are en route to the storm which currently has sustained winds near 35 miles per hour.

Current satellite imagery shows an increasingly organized storm.

The storm is expected to reach Tropical Storm strength in the next twenty-four hours, in which case it would become Tropical Storm Ida. It is currently near San Andres Island and Nicaragua, with current movement to the West/Northwest at 7 miles per hour.

Could this affect weather across the Southeastern United States and Alabama? Hard to say at this time, but some of the recent computer models do turn it northward into the Gulf of Mexico as a strengthening Tropical Storm. It will definitely need to monitored closely over the next few days.

The computer models can be seen above. As you can see, most of them take it northward eventually.

The models predicting how intense this storm will be show great consensus that it will be a Tropical Storm.

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