Position: 30.3N 90.7W [10:00PM CDT 0300UTC].
Movement: Northwest [340°] near 9 mph [15 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 105 mph [165 kph].
Wind Gusts: 130 mph [210 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 140 miles [220 km].
Hurricane Wind Radius: 35 miles [ 55 km].
Minimum central pressure: 953 mb ↑.

Currently about 30 miles [ 50 km] East-Southeast of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Currently about 245 miles [ 395 km] West of me.

NOAA Doppler radar imagery indicated that the eye of Ida made landfall along the southeastern coast of Louisiana near Port Fourchon around 11:55 AM CDT (1655 UTC).

NOAA Doppler radar imagery indicates that the eye of Ida made a second landfall along the southeastern coast of Louisiana just southwest of Galliano around 2:00 PM CDT (1900 UTC).

A Hurricane Warning is in effect for Morgan City, Louisiana to the mouth of the Pearl River including Lake Pontchartrain, Lake Maurepas, and Metropolitan New Orleans.

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for Intracoastal City, Louisiana to west of Morgan City, Louisiana; the mouth of the Pearl River to the Alabama/Florida border.

A Storm Surge Warning is in effect for Morgan City, Louisiana to the Alabama/Florida border including Lake Borgne, Lake Pontchartrain, Lake Maurepas, and Mobile Bay.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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Position: 38.1N 41.9W [10:00PM CDT 0300UTC].
Movement: Northeast [040°] near 26 mph [43 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 60 mph [ 95 kph].
Wind Gusts: 70 mph [115 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 105 miles [165 km].
Minimum central pressure: 995 mb.

Currently about 810 miles [1300 km] West of the Azores.

This is the last public advisory issued by the National Hurricane Center on this system.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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Position: 20.1N 50.6W [10:00PM CDT 0300UTC].
Movement: North [350°] near 8 mph [13 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 35 mph [ 55 kph].
Hurricane Wind Radius: 25 miles [ 35 km].
Minimum central pressure: 1008 mb.

Currently about 760 miles [1225 km] East-Northeast of the Leeward Islands.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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It wasn’t the storm, it was the levees.

It wasn’t Nature, it was man.