Don’t like Ida for my LA/MS/AL Gulf Coast peeps. Please be getting ready now for a major hurricane strike with peak wind impacts in Louisiana — perhaps in the New Orleans metro area — and flooding impacts spreading much further out from the center of the storm.

@pimoore The Gulf is especially scary. Seems like every storm is undergoing rapid intensification right up to landfall, really complicating preparedness efforts.

@jaredwsmith No doubt, it’s bad enough that the humid gulf air makes summer miserable but now it’s intensifying storm cells and hurricanes on top of it.