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Hurricane Ida roars past Cancun, heads for US Gulf coast
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Fishermen haul in their boat in the fishing village of Puerto Juarez, Mexico, on the outskirts of Cancun, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. Officials 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. (AP Photo/Israel Leal)
Little damage was reported in Cancun, Mexico Sunday as Hurricane Ida raced along the east coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, apparently headed for landfall late tomorrow or early Tuesday near Pensacola, Fla.
A hurricane warning was in effect Sunday night stretching along the Gulf coast from Pascagoula, Miss. to Indian Pass, Fla. A hurricane warning means hurricane conditions are expected somewhere in the warning area in the next 24 hours.
New Orleans is not in the hurricane warning area, but is under a tropical storm warning.
At 9 p.m. CST, Ida was about 400 miles south-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River, according to the National Hurricane Center. It was a category two hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph.
Ida was bringing heavy rain to western Cuba, but the Cuban government canceled hurricane watches and warnings for the island after the center of the storm passed well to the west of the country.
Hurricane Ida produced torrential rains in El Salvador over the weekend, resulting in widespread flooding that has been blamed for at least 124 deaths in the country.
Mexico and Cuba were luckier, as Ida moved between the two nations, passing within about 75 miles of both. Hurricane force winds were extending outward about 35 miles from the eye of the storm, while tropical storm force winds extended out up to 175 miles.
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