A Late-Season Ida Eyes the Northern U.S. Gulf Coast

Ida, currently a strong tropical storm with maximum sustained winds just below hurricane strength at 61 knots (70 miles per hour), is shown in these side-by-side images from NASA's QuikScat satellite and the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite.In the QuikScat image (top right), acquired Nov. 9 at 3:23 a.m. PST (11:23 UTC), the white barbs show the direction of