Hurricane Ida Category 5

Ida is now a Category Four hurricane with up to 145 mph sustained winds. Gulf Coast late Sunday.

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Ida is the ninth named storm of the 2021 hurricane season.

Hurricane ida category 5. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center expect Ida to hit Louisiana and Mississippi as a Category 4 storm with winds of 140 mph on Sunday. A dangerous hurricane scenario is taking shape across the Gulf Coast for this weekend as Tropical Storm Ida is poised to rapidly intensify and take aim at coastal Louisiana as a major hurricane of Category 3 intensity or greater. Ida is expected to make landfall on the same date that Hurricane Katrina struck the area catastrophically 16 years ago.

Hurricane Ida was upgraded to a Category 4 storm the United States National Hurricane Center NHC said on. The storm is strengthening on its way to the Gulf of Mexico and forecasters said Hurricane Ida could have winds of 120 mph before landfall. Thousands of residents are fleeing Louisiana as Hurricane Ida is expected to ravage the state.

Landfall as a category 3 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale with sustained winds of at least 111 mph and heavy rainfall. By The Associated Press. Heavy traffic was seen on Coastal highways on Saturday August 29 as people moved to escape the storms path.

Forecasters say Hurricane Ida has rapidly intensified with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph a Category 4 storm. Hurricane Ida has strengthened to a Category 2 hurricane in the National Hurricane Centers latest update. Hurricane Ida struck Cuba on Friday as a rapidly intensifying storm that could speed across warm Gulf waters and slam into Louisiana as a Category 3 hurricane on Sunday the National Hurricane Center warned.

29 Aug 2021 0559PM NEW ORLEANS. Ida strengthened to a Category 3 storm as of early Sunday morning Air Force Hurricane Hunter aircraft determined with sustained winds at 115 mph and gusting to 125 mph. August 29 2021 902 AM 1 min read.

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New Orleans braces for Hurricane Ida expected to hit as a Category 4 storm 13 US. The National Hurricane Center predicted it would strengthen into an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane with top winds of 140 mph 225 kph before making landfall along the US. Residents along Louisianas coast braced for Ida to bring powerful wind and rains on the exact date that Hurricane Katrina devastated a large swath of the Gulf Coast exactly 16 years earlier.

It added that Ida which is expected to make landfall on Sunday was now a Category 4 hurricane on the five-step Saffir Simpson scale a 1 to 5 rating based on a hurricanes maximum sustained wind. 5 AM CDT August 29 -- Hurricane Ida is still intensifying with. 29 Aug 2021 0558PM Updated.

The categories in order of strength are tropical depression tropical storm and hurricane categories 1 through 5. Ida intensified rapidly Friday from a tropical storm to a hurricane with top winds of 80 mph 128 kph as it crossed western Cuba. Ida is expected to reach Louisiana on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina a Category 3 storm blamed for 1800 deaths levee breaches and ruinous flooding in New Orleans.

Hurricane Ida is rapidly gaining strength as it barrels over Cuba and towards the Gulf Coast. NEW ORLEANS AFP Hurricane Ida was upgraded to a Category Four storm the US National Hurricane Center said Sunday staying on course to hit New Orleans with sustained winds of 130 miles per. Category 4 hurricanes have winds of at least 130 mph.

August 27 2021 533 AM 3 min read. Forecasts have Ida.

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