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Ida is now a Category 4 storm and is expected to strengthen further before landfall later today.

Model guidance is still suggesting tropical activity in the Gulf of Mexico next week.

Forecasters are keeping a watchful eye about 1,000 miles southwest of Lafayette this morning for potential tropical development.

Here's the latest track on Tropical Storm Eta plus we have the complete tropical outlook for the next five days.

The latest official track puts Key West and South Florida in the cone of uncertainty by next week.

Zeta weakens over Mexico, expected to restrengthen later today as it marches toward the Louisiana coastline.

Acadiana should expect a lot of rain to fall over the next several days as the system moves toward the coast.

The center of the storm should pass just to the west of Pensacola during the day today.

There are now two active tropical storms in the Atlantic Basin and an area of disturbed weather that could pose a problem for the U.S. East Coast.

The tropical waves are well out to sea and have been given a 30% probability to strengthen into tropical cyclones.

The last time conditions in the tropics looked like this was in 2005. The year of Katrina and Rita.

There have already been five named storms so far this season. We've not seen five named storms this early in the hurricane season since 2005.