BREAKING: Ida becomes ninth named storm of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season. Forecast to arrive along the northern Gulf Coast by Sunday. Complete forecast briefing:
Tropical storm warnings have been issued in the Cayman Islands and western Cuba. These areas could see tropical-storm-force winds through Friday.
Bands of heavy rainfall could also trigger dangerous flooding and landslides in Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, western Cuba and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula as this system tracks generally northwestward through Friday.The NHC expects Ida could be at or near hurricane strength as it approaches western Cuba or the southern Gulf of Mexico late Friday into early Saturday.
There is the possibility that Ida will undergo a period of rapid intensification as a hurricane when it tracks through the Gulf of Mexico this weekend. That's because, upper-level winds should be favorable and there's plenty of moist air available. An area of high pressure over the Southeast U.S. will be the large-scale steering wheel for the system, with its clockwise circulation sending it northwestward in the Gulf.Right now, the NHC forecasts a landfall of Ida as a hurricane somewhere from the upper Texas coast to Louisiana and southern Mississippi sometime Sunday or early Monday.
Tropical storm conditions could arrive along portions of the northern Gulf Coast as soon as Saturday night or early Sunday. At least some coastal flooding could begin in some areas as soon as Saturday.
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