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Watch: St. Tammany President Mike Cooper gives an update on Hurricane Ida
By Kenny Kuhn Aug 29, 2021
St. Tammany President Mike Cooper gives an update on Hurricane Ida.
"Reports from a NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft indicate that maximum sustained winds have increased to near 150 mph with higher gusts," the NHC advised. "Ida is a category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Some additional strengthening is forecast, and Ida is expected to be an extremely dangerous major hurricane when it makes landfall along the Louisiana coast this afternoon."












