Night has fallen on the entire Gulf of Mexico and the surrounding coastline. At the same time, Hurricane Ida violently intensified at midnight, and the impact of the landfall on the border of Louisiana and Mississippi on Sunday may be more influential than Hurricane Katrina. The 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is also Sunday.
The latest update from the National Hurricane Center on Saturday indicated that Ida is still a Category 2 storm with sustained wind speeds of 105 mph. However, Ada’s eye wall became clearer, and the storm began to look like some monsters that had hit the Gulf Coast in the past few years.
The Hurricane Center at 10 p.m. EST on Saturday night stated that Ida is expected to “intensify rapidly before making landfall. Life-threatening storm surges, potentially catastrophic winds, and flooding. Rain is expected to affect the Gulf Coast from Sunday morning. North.”
Saturday’s latest forecast lists Ida as a Category 2 storm. The next forecast from the National Hurricane Center will be made at 1 a.m. Central Time. When the sustained wind speed is at least 111 mph, the storm reaches Category 3 status, and Category 4 storms start at 130 mph. When Ida is roaring towards the coasts of Louisiana and Mississippi, it is not impossible to be in category 3 or 4 at sunrise.
Although Ada moves in the form of a Category 2 storm at night, it is passing through very warm waters in the middle to the north of the bay, where the water temperature is 84 degrees or higher. It’s like adding more fire to a fire that has just become hot.
Several parishes in southeastern Louisiana have issued mandatory evacuation orders, but many people living in southern Louisiana have already started their own evacuation-this was triggered by Hurricane Katrina. In 2016, 2016 and the past few years, one after another raging storm ignited this action. century.
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Louisiana Governor John Bell Edwards said on Saturday that Hurricane Ida may be one of the most destructive storms to hit the state since the 1850s (before the American Civil War).
“Today, at our unified command team meeting, one thing the National Weather Service told us is that they are very confident about the current orbit and intensity of Hurricane Ida. And you really can’t hear them talking about That level of confidence,” Edwards said.
“So, we can summarize, this will be one of the strongest hurricanes to hit anywhere in Louisiana since at least the 1850s.”
Ada formed as a tropical storm in the Caribbean a few days ago and intensified into a first-degree storm when it moved over Cuba on Friday. By Saturday afternoon, as the storm moved towards northwestern Cuba, the outer belt had reached Lafayette, Louisiana, from Cuba, and continued east to Naples and the Fort Meyers area in southwestern Florida.
Hurricane Katrina took a similar path to Ida in 2005, moving over South Florida and the Florida Keys as a Category 1 storm, and then rapidly developing into a Category 5 storm targeting New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina slowed down in wind speed and eventually moved eastward and struck the coast of Mississippi in the form of a Category 3 storm, destroying the towns of Pas Christian and Long Beach.
Hurricane Katrina in southeastern Louisiana, especially in New Orleans, caused the dyke to burst and completely flooded the ninth district of the city. Some houses had water on the second floor.
Flights to and from Louis Armstrong Airport in New Orleans on Sunday have been cancelled. Edwards and local officials warned that time is running out for residents who have not yet evacuated, and either go north or squat down, hoping everything goes well.
“We can also tell you that your time window is closing, and it is closing quickly,” Edwards said. “When you go to bed tonight, you need to get to where you plan to get through this storm, and you need to be as prepared as possible.”
Hurricane Katrina made landfall as a Category 3 storm in 2005, with its eye wall located east of Louisiana and sweeping the Mississippi coastline. Hurricane Katrina killed more than 1,800 people.
