Swell's still up. Gabrielle is hauling away, but there's still a clean north swell hitting the coast. Winds are light and waves should be fun for at least another couple of days. Get out there if you have nothing better to do, cuz it's gonna be small this weekend. Tropical A tropical depression formed late on Wednesday in the western Caribbean but quickly made landfall and weakened.
Heavy rain continues over Nicaragua and El Salvador.
This system may develop again when it moves into the eastern Pacific. The western Pacific continues to be active. This storm produced up to 32 inches of rain over Taiwan. It is forecast to slide southwestward, just off the Chinese coast over the next 24 hours. Typhoon Vipa is expected to bypass the southern coast of Japan.