Ida's winds are still 130mph despite being on land for a few hours

[malaise]

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at4.shtml?start#contents

So far it looks like NOLA will not get the worst of this - take care DUers

[jimfields33]

1. They are on the dirty side. Tornadoes could be an issue.

I hope not of course.

[malaise]

2. Well I remember Katrina - all looked well on day one

and then the levees broke - new infrastructure will be severely tested in the next few hours

[jimfields33]

3. Best of luck to everyone.

I wish there was a way to stop them once off the coast of Africa. It would cost a fortune, but we’ve spent trillions over the decades anyway. I wonder if anybody is working on this.

[Lochloosa]

4. There were two landfalls. Nothing to slow the winds down

[malaise]

5. Was heading Northwest, stalled and headed North

which means NOLA will face some 100mph winds. It will be rough for NOLA for the next three or so hours.

[kentuck]

6. That is a monster hurricane!

For sure! I hope everyone was able to escape its path.

[malaise]

7. Well if it drenches us for nearly three days when it wasn't even a TS

it was always going to be one of the major hurricanes of this season. Ida may be the biggest one this year.

[LeftInTX]

8. Still at 130 MPH, one hour later. 5 PM CDT ..good gosh!!! Still a Cat 4!

Over land for how many hours now???

Its barometric pressure went up one point from 937 mb to 938 mb, but storm is stalled at 10 mph and just sitting there making meyhem

[malaise]

9. Nearly six hours later

but it's now top end of Cat 3
Cat 4 starts at 131

[LeftInTX]

10. CNN and Weather Underground is saying it's a Cat 4...

[malaise]

11. LOL

Won't quibble over 1, but our MET office says 131.

[misanthrope]

14. True but it is over very warm, soggy wetlands

They can feed the storm like the open water does.

[malaise]

15. Abd that is what is happening

[malaise]

18. Ida stayed intense for so long that it reached Baton Rouge as a Cat2

I heard that Baton Rouge had never experienced a Cat2 before and there may be significant damage.

[TomSlick]

12. Where Ida came ashore, it is only kinda "on land."

Until it got to just south of Houma, it was over bayous and swamps - more warm water than land.

[malaise]

13. Yep

and very warm

[LeftInTX]

16. It's getting better...120 MPH...Pressure now 944 mb--eye pretty much closed...

Link to tweet

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But, if I can read maps without a whole lot of reference points, it appears that Ida's center is over NOLA right now...

[malaise]

17. Great news

It will be a miserable night for all in its path - and tomorrow we will see the real damage