Ida's top winds have fallen to 35 miles per hour, weakening the storm to a tropical depression. It is traveling north-northeast at nine miles per hour.
With Ida being downgraded below tropical stom strenght, all watches and warnings associated with it have been canceled.
The forecast calls for Ida to pick up forward speed toward the northeast by tonight and continue on that path tomorrow through the end of the week, eventually heading out over the Atlantic coat as a post-tropical depression. Ida has the potential to bring flooding rains over portions of the Mississippi and Tennessee river valleys.
Elsewhere in the tropics, Tropical Storm Kate formed in the central Atlantic. It is forecast to move north over open water before dissipating.
The National Hurricane Center is watching an area of low pressure over the western Caribbean that may slowly develop over the next week.
A tropical wave coming off the coast of Africa is expected to encounter favorable conditions for development over the Atlantic Ocean. The hurricane center gives it an 80 percent chance of cyclone development through five days.