Hurricane Ida is on a path heading for New Orleans, in what is expected to be the fiercest storm to strike the city since Hurricane Katrina made landfall exactly 16 years ago
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.Ida is expected to make landfall in southeast Louisiana at about 1 p.m., the National Weather Service in New Orleans said.
, and works its way through the alphabet. Naming storms also avoids confusion when there is more than one storm approaching.Workers boarded up shop windows ahead of Hurricane Ida in New Orleans on Saturday.. 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 an hour to 70 mph.with 30 named storms.
Interstate 10 near Slidell, La., was packed with people heading east on Saturday as Hurricane Ida approached.Copyright ©2021 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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