tropical depression

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Heavy rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida, since downgraded to a tropical depression, is expected throughout the afternoon and into the early evening before clearing overnight.

Organizers of the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival announced Tuesday that they would be canceling this week’s event due to flooding from Ida, now downgraded to a tropical depression.

Now, the relentless storm, which remains a tropical depression as it swirls through the Deep South toward the Tennessee Valley, is slated to drop a slug of serious rainfall, bringing widespread flash flooding and the risk of a few tornadoes.

On Thursday morning, the National Hurricane Center had found that a complex of thunderstorms in west-central Caribbean had organized into a tropical depression, a precursor to a named tropical storm.