Antarctica

Weather Underground midday recap for Saturday, November 07, 2009. Perhaps the biggest weather story for the nation on Saturday was Tropical Storm Ida as it progressed steadily through the western Caribbean Sea east of the Yucatan Peninsula. After a slow hurricane season, this late season tropical storm is expected to strengthen into a hurricane on Sunday while moving through the Yucatan Channel. As it moves into the Gulf of Mexico early in the workweek, it is expected to weaken but will affect the Gulf Coast later in the week. For more information on this storm, please see http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/.

Inactive weather greeted the country on Saturday. A high pressure system along the eastern seaboard provided dry conditions from the Northeast through the Southeast.

Meanwhile, a weak cold front swept through the Plains and Upper Midwest, but little to no precipitation was associated with this feature.

The only notable precipitation in the country occurred in the Northwest as moist Pacific air provided a fairly concentrated area of precipitation in Washington and Oregon.

The Northeast rose into the 30s, 40s, and 50s, while the Southeast saw temperatures in the 60s and 70s. The Plains rose into the 70s and 80s, while the Southwest saw temperatures in the 70s and 80s.

Temperatures in the Lower 48 states Saturday have ranged from a morning low of 14 degrees at Mt. Washington, N.H. to a midday high of 90 degrees at Gage, Okla.