Hurricane Ida will strengthen "quickly" before hitting the Louisiana coast this Sunday with winds of up to

140 miles per hour (225 km / h)

, making it an "extremely dangerous" storm. , as predicted this Saturday by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) of the United States.

The latest NHC bulletin, issued at 8 a.m. local time (12 noon GMT), recalls the preparations to protect itself from this powerful hurricane, which is expected to hit the US coast of the Gulf of Mexico

with category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale

, of a maximum of 5 and that measures cyclones based on the strength of their winds.

Ida is already about 385 miles (620 km) south-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 caused the death in 2005 about

2,000 people.

Ida is expected to pass near this Louisiana city, so this Friday its mayor, LaToya Cantrell, ordered the evacuation of people living outside the levee system that protect the city from possible floods. Ida is expected to enter northern Louisiana or western Mississippi on Monday, hours during which it will slowly weaken.

The NHC anticipates that Ida could cause a dangerous storm surge that would raise sea levels 15 feet (4.5 meters) above normal tidal levels at the mouth of the Mississippi River. To this should be added

large and dangerous waves

, which would worsen the situation in areas that will also receive large amounts of rain, with accumulation of up to 20 inches (50 centimeters) in southeastern Louisiana and southern Mississippi until Monday.

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

Moreover, they anticipate that tornadoes can be registered from Sunday until early Monday in southeastern Louisiana and southern Mississippi. Against this background, the governor of Louisiana, John Bel Edwards, requested this Friday the declaration of federal emergency given the forecasts of an impact from Ida in this state and warned that there are only a few hours left for the population to prepare.


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