Posted on 11/08/2009 12:34:22 AM PST by NautiNurse
Hurricane Ida continues to strengthen as it approaches the Yucatan Peninsula and Gulf of Mexico. The government of Mexico has issued a Hurricane Warning from Playa del Carmen to Cabo Catoche. The late season hurricane is expected to enter the Gulf of Mexico later Sunday at a Category 2 storm.
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| Category | Wind Speed | Barometric Pressure | Storm Surge | Damage Potential |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tropical Depression |
< 39 mph < 34 kts |
Minimal | ||
| Tropical Storm |
39 - 73 mph 34 - 63 kts |
Minimal | ||
| Hurricane 1 (Weak) |
74 - 95 mph 64 - 82 kts |
28.94" or more 980.02 mb or more |
4.0' - 5.0' 1.2 m - 1.5 m |
Minimal damage to vegetation |
| Hurricane 2 (Moderate) |
96 - 110 mph 83 - 95 kts |
28.50" - 28.93" 965.12 mb - 979.68 mb |
6.0' - 8.0' 1.8 m - 2.4 m |
Moderate damage to houses |
| Hurricane 3 (Strong) |
111 - 130 mph 96 - 112 kts |
27.91" - 28.49" 945.14 mb - 964.78 mb |
9.0' - 12.0' 2.7 m - 3.7 m |
Extensive damage to small buildings |
| Hurricane 4 (Very strong) |
131 - 155 mph 113 - 135 kts |
27.17" - 27.90" 920.08 mb - 944.80 mb |
13.0' - 18.0' 3.9 m - 5.5 m |
Extreme structural damage |
| Hurricane 5 (Devastating) |
Greater than 155 mph Greater than 135 kts |
Less than 27.17" Less than 920.08 mb |
Greater than 18.0' Greater than 5.5m |
Catastrophic building failures possible |
Previous thread:
Sustained winds ~90 mph, 983 mb, moving NW at 10 mph.
Expected to strengthen to Category 2 later today.
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Headed straight to NO. OK, let’s see how the childrun in DC handle this. Popcorn please.
I hope it does not hit NOLA. I don’t think my community can handle too many more Katrina refugees.
I did a doubletake on that projected track map with the day/time. But I guess they’re expecting the hurricane to loop back.
Thanx for the ping!
My guess is this thing will pump up to 100 mph and then as it goes north slowly dissolve until its sucked up into an advancing cold front and head north east over to merry ol'.
Why is this in chat instead of breaking?
Well this is a surprise. Had heard a weatherguy say yesterday it would just dissipate in the gulf....who knows, maybe it still will.
Gosh yesterday it looked like it was falling apart right after it went through the Yucatan Channel, now it is still strenghening to a cat 2?
Wow, we are lucky we are not like six weeks ago or we would be really in for a rough ride with this track.
I get to drive from Jacksonville to Orlando on Thursday I better take a bumper chute!
I posted it to News/Current Events, and it was moved to weather chat.
The MSM will handle it for them. As in: “Nothing to see here, move along now.
The official forecast shows tropical storm force winds reaching
portions of the U.S. Gulf Coast in a couple of days. However...
since Ida is expected to begin undergoing extratropical
transition around that time...these hazards are being handled
by local National Weather Service offices along the Gulf Coast
in their product suite with marine and coastal flood watches...
warnings ...and advisories.
At some heretofore unknown time in the next 72 hours, the NHC will turn off their lights because Ida will transform from a hurricane into another entity while lashing the coastline about 100 miles offshore. Sounds like a government bureaucrat agency turf battle. Just remember to stop following the NHC products before a tree hits your house and the lights go out...
Weird. I did hear the news guys start talking sub-tropical system, etc. etc. Seems in years past they were eager to count those as storms and they stayed under the NHS oversight.
I think we’ll get lots of wind, don’t you? It’s windy already, and bring that thing into the Gulf and winds are bound to pick up.
No boating on Veteran’s Day.
We bought a foreclosure down our way and were fixing it up all summer/early fall. I was just dreading the possibility of having to board up two homes, but looks like we escaped that problem. Knock on wood, LOL!!!
Exactly--I don't get it, expecially while the storm is packing tropical storm force winds in a fishbowl called the Gulf of Mexico.
Let's hope we don't have to board up any homes.
Well vacation is almost over, so let her rip. ;)
Hey Rodguy.
Because they needed to up the storm count to push globull warming.
Thanks for these threads, BTW! :)
Interests elsewhere along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico
should monitor the progress of Ida. Additional tropical cyclone
watches or warnings may be required later today.
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Tobasco country could get hit.
...or Cao’s district. Rove is at it again... :-)
That's what one of my local weathermen said too but I've had a feeling all along that once it got into the Gulf it would develop into a hurricane. Unless it bebops around though it won't have enough time to become a strong one.
Uhhh- how can it NOT include N.O? We’re only a bit north of Grand Isle. That’s like saying a storm could hit your side of the street but mine will be unaffected. If it hits Grand Isle New Orleans will be affected. It won’t just vanish over Plaquemines Parish.
Politics, politics.
A minor storm could flood N.O. and the powers that be don’t want to discourage ‘investments’ and tourism by admitting it unless it actually occurs.
Hell- if old, battered unrepaired levees break anywhere it won’t matter if the weather has a name or not.They can’t hold a lot of water- not even from heavy rainstorms.
And the news here is silent-naturally. If they could ignore
a behemoth like Katrina until the day before it hit , Ida is nothing!
If its not about football it’s not real.
Thanks. I'm about twelve miles from the Ala/Miss border.
Fortunately, I haven't disposed of my gasoline stash for the year yet. So...I'm ready.
What are the water temps like in the path?
You’re gonna get smacked by Ida—whether it’s tropical, extratropical, subtropical, whatever...
Le’s hope it makes landfall over Joseph Cao’s home.
Thread has been moved to news, frontpage and extended.
Hopefully, you have at least one local news meteorologist willing and able to fill in the enormous forecast gaps for this storm. Meanwhile, the government agency bureaucrats are playing hot potato with this system.
Also updated title to reflect issuance of hurricane watch
Thank you!
Obama will pass an executive arder against the hurricane, and it will cease to exist.
It will not be mentioned in the media as a hurricane.
The winds will destroy thousands of homes,and there will be noi FEMA response.
The hurricane will never have happened.
I don’t have average SST data. I know we had to run the air conditioner all through October, and there’s been very little cloud cover/rain lately.
Yup. We're gonna get something. I hope I don't have to put up the shutters.
Mudslides caused by Ida’s rain have killed at least 42 people in El Salvador.
http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idUSN0823510420091108?sp=true
Good call.
Is Carl Rove still in charge of the weather machine? I thought they took his keys to the control room away!
Thanks. I’m about twelve miles from the Ala/Miss border. Really? Me too. MS side
Watching.
How is Obama going to blame Bush on this one?
Yup, Alabama side near Bellingrath Gardens.
Oh my folks batten down the hatches and get the H*ll out of the way! This storm eerily looks like Katrina. If you think GW messed up in it’s aftermath I hate to see how Obie will do!
Hello, Miss NN, longish time no see, thank God!
Did I tell you about this killer wxloop?
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~ovens/loops/wxloop.cgi?wv_east_enhanced+12
(hurl was flake)
Sorry. Hurricane season ended a week ago. I’m not gonna play.
Glad I knew where to come for info NautiNurse... once again, thanks for all you do!
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