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Aug 29, 2021 · Katrina hit Louisiana from due south, while Ida is coming to the same part of the state from southeast. On Sunday, Ida’s hurricane-force winds extended 37 miles (about 60 kilometers) from the ...
- Different Direction
- Size Matters
- Rapid Intensification
- New Eyewall
Ida is coming to the same general place from a slightly different direction. Several hurricane experts fear that difference in angle may put New Orleans more in the dangerous storm quadrant — the right front part of a hurricane — than it was in Katrina, when the city was more devastated by levee failure than storm surge. Katrina's northeast quadran...
The difference in size is not just physically huge, but it matters for damages. Storms that are bigger in width have larger storm surge because of the broader push of the water. Ida "is not going to generate the huge storm surge like Katrina did, it'll have more focused storm surge like (1969's) Camille," Masters said. But larger in size storms are...
Ida is about to hit an eddy of what's called the Loop Current. The Loop Currentis this deep patch of incredibly warm water. It takes warm water off the Yucatan Peninsula does a loop in the Gulf of Mexico and spins up the eastern edge of Florida into the Gulf Stream. Water above 79 degrees is hurricane fuel. Normally when a storm intensifies or stal...
After a hurricane rapidly intensifies it becomes so strong and its eye so small that it often can't quite keep going that way, so it forms an outer eyewall and the inside eyewall collapses, Kossin said. That's called eyewall replacement. When a new eyewall forms, often a storm becomes larger in size but a bit weaker, Kossin said. So key for Ida is ...
Sep 4, 2021 · Katrina, which made landfall on the same date as Ida, 16 years earlier, had hurricane force winds extending out more than 90 miles from the center, and tropical force winds to more than 200 miles.
Aug 30, 2021 · Ida, meanwhile, made landfall around midday Sunday as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 150 mph near Port Fourchon, the NHC said. Ida had rapidly strengthened in the 24 hours leading up to ...
Aug 29, 2021 · Hurricane Ida looks an awful lot like Hurricane Katrina, bearing down on the same part of Louisiana on the same calendar date. But hurricane experts say there are differences in the two storms 16 years apart that may prove key and may make Ida nastier in some ways but less dangerous in others.(Sophia Germer/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP)
- sborenstein@ap.org
- Science Writer
Sep 1, 2021 · Aerial photographs reveal damage and flooding in parts of Louisiana following Hurricane Ida. ... The storm arrived in New Orleans 16 years after Hurricane Katrina followed a similar path in 2005 ...
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Sep 4, 2021 · Katrina hit Louisiana from due south, while Ida was coming to the same part of the state from southeast. On Sunday, Ida’s hurricane-force winds extended 37 miles from the center, compared to Katrina’s hurricane-force winds that spread 98 miles from the center when it made landfall. Ida late Saturday and early Sunday feasted on an eddy of ...
