Ida is on a path toward the U.S. Gulf Coast, and forecasters predict it could hit Louisiana late Sunday or early Monday as a major hurricane
, and forecasters predict it could hit Louisiana late Sunday or early Monday as a major hurricane. Louisiana, Mississippi and parts of Alabama were preparing for the storm.
The storm is the latest in what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has forecast will be a busier-than-average season. It forecasts between 15 and 21 named storms, and three to five of those becoming major hurricanes.Late Sunday or early Monday. If the storm makes landfall Sunday, it will arrive exactly 16 yearsSince Katrina, a $14.5 billion flood protection system—flood walls, levees, canals and barriers constructed by the U.S.
People bring home sandbags Friday at a sandbag distribution site in New Orleans, where Hurricane Ida was projected to make landfall 16 years after Katrina heavily damaged the city.Storms were given names so that stations, agencies and ships at sea can communicate easily. The World Meteorological Organization
, and works its way through the alphabet. Naming storms also avoids confusion when there is more than one storm approaching.What’s the difference between a storm and a hurricane?. The storm Henri moved from a Category 1 Hurricane to a Tropical Storm on Aug. 22 as it approached Rhode Island and its maximum sustained winds dropped from 75 miles and hour to 70 mph.with 30 named storms.
In New Orleans on Friday, a crew with the Flood Protection Authority East removes wall barriers that will allow the flood gates at one site to be closed in the coming days in anticipation of Hurricane Ida.Copyright ©2021 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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