South America

Weather Underground Forecast for Monday, November 16, 2009. No tropical development is expected through the Caribbean Sea on Monday as quiet weather will return to the area following Tropical Storm Ida's damaging trek.

The tail end of a cold front will meander over the central portion of the Caribbean Sea, bringing scattered showers and thunderstorms that will not be widespread in nature. Additional showers and thunderstorms are expected in the eastern Caribbean Sea from the Lesser Antilles through Hispaniola.

A concentrated area of showers and thunderstorms will develop along the coast of Central America from Panama through Nicaragua. The rest of Central America will remain quite dry and calm.

Late in the day, a cold front will enter the western Gulf of Mexico, producing another concentrated area of precipitation.

For South America, the normally active area near Sao Paulo will once again experience a passing front that will renew moderate rain not only in the area around the city but farther inland through southern Brazil and into Paraguay.

A long front will continue pushing into southern Chile and Argentina, but most of the preciitation will fall well south of most populated areas.

Typical tropical moisture will produce scattered showers and thunderstorms in the northern portion of the continent.

Rio De Janeiro will rise into the upper 80s(F)/lower 30s(C), while Buenos Aires will see temperatures in the mid-80s(F)/upper 20s(C). Santiago, Chile will rise into the lower 80s(F)/upper 20s(C).