Hurricane Ida will strengthen quickly before reaching the United States with winds of 225 km / h

The Hurricane Ida will be reinforced “quick“Before reaching the coast of Louisiana (USA) this Sunday with winds of up to 140 miles per hour (225 km / h), which will turn it into a storm”extremely dangerous“, Predicted this Saturday the National Hurricane Center (NHC) of the United States.

According to the NHC bulletin, published at 8 a.m. local time (12 p.m. GMT), preparations to protect against this powerful hurricane, which is expected to hit the US coast of the Gulf of Mexico with category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, to a maximum of 5 and which measures cyclones according to the strength of their winds.

Ida is already about 385 miles (620 km) southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River and about 440 miles (710 km) from New Orleans., which these days commemorates the anniversary of the impact of Hurricane Katrina, which killed some 2,000 people in 2005.

Ida should pass near this Louisiana town, so this Friday your mayor, La Toya Cantrell, ordered the evacuation of people living outside the dike system that protects the city from possible flooding.

After making landfall this Sunday, Ida is expected to enter northern Louisiana or western Mississippi on Monday, hours during which it will undergo a progressive weakening.

The NHC expects that Ida could cause a dangerous storm surge this would raise the sea level 15 feet (4.5 meters) above normal tide levels at the mouth of the Mississippi River.

To this must be added big and dangerous waves, which would make matters worse in areas that will also receive large amounts of rain, with accumulation of up to 20 inches (50 centimeters) in southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi through Monday.

All of this could cause flooding and flooding in this region, warned experts, who also anticipated that strong winds could start to be felt in this area of ​​the US coast late this Saturday.

It is more, They predict that tornadoes can be recorded from Sunday until the early hours of Monday. in southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi.

In this context, the Governor of Louisiana, John Bel Edwards, asked this Friday the federal declaration of emergency before the forecasts of an impact of Ida in this state and warned that there are only a few hours left for the population to prepare.

(With information from EFE)

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