Keeping an Eye on Ida With Radar, Tracks

Remember you can track Tropical Storm Ida this weekend on the Mexico and Cuba Radar (because the Cuba site is slow we attempt to archive the radar once an hour on AccuWeather.com, you may have more luck using that link). She is looking much better on satellite this morning; live shot below.

We'll be keeping an eye on her all weekend; check AccuWeather.com for news stories and Hurricane.AccuWeather.com for tracks from us, the government and the computer forecast models (12Z Saturday shown below).

Several of the strength models say she will be of hurricane strength and approach the coast between New Orleans, Louisiana and Pensacola, Florida, but several of the long-range models say that she could end up not making landfall but rather looping back into the Gulf. It's going to be an interesting week.