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This is called the "Safe Quadrant" due to the lower observed wind speeds. To look at it another way, in the Northern Hemisphere if a person is to the right of where a hurricane or tropical storm makes landfall, that is considered the dangerous quadrant. If they are to the left of the point of landfall, that is the safe quadrant.
The chief, Scooter Resweber, called it the "most severe hurricane" he had ever experienced. [115] A St. James Parish man was killed after his backyard shed fell on top of him during Hurricane Ida's heavy winds. [116] Four storm-related deaths were also reported in Tangipahoa Parish among nursing home residents evacuated during Hurricane Ida. [117]
Hurricane Ida was the strongest landfalling tropical cyclone during the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season, crossing the coastline of Nicaragua with winds of 80 mph (130 km/h). The remnants of the storm became a powerful nor'easter that caused widespread damage along coastal areas of the Mid-Atlantic States. Ida formed on November 4 in the ...
The most infamous storm of the 2021 season, Ida exploded from a tropical depression into a Category 4 hurricane within three days before it made landfall in Louisiana on Aug. 29, 2021. Parts of ...
AccuWeather forecasters correctly predicted that Ida would become the first hurricane to make landfall this season, and did so as a Category 4 hurricane (sustained winds of 130 to 156 mph).
Hurricane Opal, the most intense Category 4 hurricane recorded, intensified to reach a minimum pressure of 916 mbar (hPa; 27.05 inHg), [54] a pressure typical of Category 5 hurricanes. [55] Nonetheless, the pressure remains too high to list Opal as one of the ten strongest Atlantic tropical cyclones. [11]
Ida grew into a category 1 hurricane Friday afternoon as it made landfall along Cuba’s Isle of Youth, the National Hurricane Center said. It is expected to become a major hurricane by Sunday ...
Hurricane Ida's initial impacts began early Sunday as the outer bands brought heavy rain to the Louisiana coast early Sunday. The Category 4 hurricane, packing sustained winds of 150 mph came ...