The 2009 hurricane season officially ends on the 30th and we have a new tropical storm...."Ida" of 60 mph formed this afternoon just off of the coast of Nicaragua. http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/carb/avn-l.jpg . Ida is expected to move west and make landfall as a possible hurricane along the coast of Nicaragua and then slowly move north and possibly into the Gulf of Mexico late in the weekend as a tropical storm. Back home a storm will develop offshore and the bulk of the rain and wind should stay out to sea, but showers and gusty winds willl still move into New England later Thursday into Friday morning...there may be a few wet snowflakes mixed in at times but this will certainly not be a winter-type storm at all...clouds are here and soon the showers...the great news however is that skies will clear for the weekend!