Hurricane Ida Makes Landfall Near Port Fourchon, Louisiana

The National Hurricane Center confirms Hurricane Ida made landfall at 12:55pm eastern near Port Fourchon, Louisiana on Sunday, August 29, 2021. The NHC says an Air Force aircraft, along with doppler radar, indicate that maximum sustained winds at landfall remained 150 mph. Ida remains a category 4 hurricane. (Graphic from National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center)

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Ida has struck land in Louisiana, with the eye of one of the most powerful storms to ever hit the U.S. coming ashore near the barrier island of Grand Isle with winds of 150 mph. Ida’s landfall on Sunday came on the same date Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi 16 years earlier, about 40 miles west of where Category 3 Katrina first struck land. The storm is expected to move across the southeast Louisiana wetlands, weakening only slightly, and bringing devastating weather to New Orleans and Baton Rouge.