tropical depression ida survived its passage over land and went back into the caribbean on november 6. over the western caribbean, it quickly became a tropical storm again. after moving north, tropical storm ida became a hurricane again. &lt;ref name="update11/7/09"&gt;&lt;/ref&gt; it reached its highest winds on november 8 while it crossed between cuba and mexico; they were measured at 105 miles per hour, making it a category 2 hurricane. water temperatures in the gulf of mexico were not warm enough to keep ida at this strength. so it quickly weakened back to a tropical storm.