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Hurricane Nicholas throttled the Texas coast with damaging winds, then soaked the northern Gulf Coast with flooding rain and storm surge.

Nicholas became the 14th named storm of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season on Sept. 12 over the southwest Gulf of Mexico.

The following night, Nicholas strengthened into the sixth hurricane of the season just off the Texas coast.

Track history of Hurricane Nicholas from Sept. 12-15, 2021.

It made landfall just northeast of Matagorda Bay, Texas, less than 3 hours later as a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph.

Winds

The upgrade to hurricane strength was prompted by a WeatherFlow sensor at Matagorda Bay, Texas, which recorded sustained winds of 76 mph and a gust to 95 mph.

Several other locations along the Texas coast clocked wind gusts at least to 60 mph including a 77-mph gust at Palacios.

Port O'Connor, Texas, measured gusts up to 75 mph, and water levels rose quickly, with 3 feet of inundation, according to a NOAA gauge.

In the Houston metro, winds gusted over 50 mph in several locations, and a 63 mph gust was clocked at the University of Houston.

At its peak, more than 500,000 homes and businesses were without power in southeast Texas, including the Houston area, according to poweroutage.us.

A few wind gusts from 40 to 50 mph were clocked near the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts, as well, according to the National Weather Service.

Storm Surge

Storm surge and rainfall flooding prompted the closure of the only road from Matagorda to Matagorda Beach, Texas.

Storm surge of 3 to 6 feet above normal tide levels was observed on the upper Texas coast, with the highest surge around Galveston Bay.

Persistent onshore winds even as Nicholas weakened to a tropical depression continued to produce coastal flooding on Sept. 15 along the Mississippi coast, including Waveland, which had some of the highest storm surge from Hurricane Ida in August.

Heavy Rain/Flooding

Flooding rain first closed some roads in Corpus Christi while Nicholas was still offshore.

By the morning after landfall, over a dozen stretches of Houston metro freeways were flooded, including Highway 225 in Pasadena and stretches of Interstate 45.

Some areas of high water were reported on feeder roads adjacent to the Gulf Freeway (Interstate 45) in Galveston County and on Broadway in the city of Galveston, according to the National Weather Service.

Rainfall in Houston ranged from 1 to 3 inches on the metro's west side to locally over 6 inches in the east and south metro. Deer Park, Texas, which is located just east of Houston, had the highest believable storm total rainfall in the metro with 9.85 inches.

Water flooded several roads in and near Beaumont and Orange, Texas, a pair of east Texas cities ravaged by flooding from Tropical Storm Imelda in 2019 and Harvey in 2017.

In Louisiana, isolated heavy rain well ahead of Nicholas triggered street flooding in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Sept. 13, before Nicholas made landfall in Texas.

Bands of heavy rain also triggered street flooding in New Orleans. Multiple underpasses were reported impassable in New Orleans East.

Debris from Hurricane Ida blocking ditches and storm drains, not to mention saturated ground, contributed to flash flooding in southeast Louisiana from Nicholas, according to the NWS office in Slidell, Louisiana.

Heavy rain flooded roads in several areas on Sept. 15, including Livingston Parish, Louisiana, Gulfport, Mississippi, Bayou La Batre, Alabama, and Pensacola, Florida.

In Baldwin County, Alabama, the heavy rain triggered a sinkhole near Seminole, according to local emergency management.

In general, 4 to 10 inches of rain fell near the middle and upper Texas coast, 5 to 9 inches in southern Louisiana, 4 to 8 inches in southern Mississippi, 4 to 7 inches in southern Alabama and 2 to 9 inches over the far western Florida Panhandle.

Estimated rainfall (heaviest in yellow, orange and red contours) and reports of flash flooding during Nicholas.

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I nearly stepped on a young raccoon as I crossed the crease between two big rocks to reach the west jetty at Montrose Harbor. The coon ambled off a bit too casually for my tastes.

Behind me, a guy mowed a green at Sydney R. Marovitz Golf Course (Waveland, for those with long memories) in the headlights of his tractor. On the other side of the mouth, light danced from the headlamps of anglers and flashers occasionally flared lighting glow spoons.

The fall return of Chinook is underway in Chicago, enough to draw scores of anglers out before dawn at Montrose. I had two-hour window early before the start of family Labor Day stuff.

I heard plenty of lines whipping the air as light seeped in, but I heard no yelps or chatter that comes with somebody hooking one.

I think it was you, lol, Stacey Greene at Park Bait posted. A guy caught one not long after you left, about 14 pounds.

My soulmate is Jonah.

On Aug. 28, Jason Special One Le documented what I think was the first shore Chinook in Chicago. It was caught by his friend Dong Ho at Montrose. In the next few days, Greene noted a few more caught at Montrose and some at Belmont.

It struck me that my odds of hooking a Chinook are much lower than my chances of catching a muskie. I expect to catch a muskie about every six to eight hours of effort. I cant even guess what my rate would be for hooking a Chinook. Maybe one in 50-plus hours.

So I asked a few people.

So far, I put 40 hours in already, but nothing for it yet! Le texted. Lost one last week, thats all! Catching one in Chicago is very hard, but trying to catch one in Wisconsin is a piece of cake! Lol.

At Henrys Sports and Bait, where they weighed in their first Chinook of the season from shore Friday a 13-pounder caught by Jesus Maya at Montrose on a 1-ounce Moonshine lure at 6:30 am. Steve Palmisano laid out the truth.

Thats not a fair question, LOL, he texted. Ten hours for the first, but it could be 10 minutes for the second. Do the math: five hours, five minutes. Dont even try to calculate a third. Chinook throw the law of averages right out the window.

Theres a lot of truth in that.

Carl Vizzone, who runs the fishing programs for the Chicago Park District, texted: Started to see a few jumpers early last week at Northerly Island. Montrose is better bet by the mouth of harbor. Fish were being caught there early last week until lake got churned up. Jason Special posted a couple on YouTube. And Stacey mentioned a few more.

Its definitely happening. Just got to be there at right time. Outside the pipe by Shedd was really rough all last week. Should get better with west winds this week. As water clears, in front of McCormick may start to produce, too.

Hope lives.

Teal

Joshua Osborn began aerial teal flights Thursday for the Illinois Natural History Survey. He noted that we dont have the booming teal numbers we did at this time last year, [but] were still on par [Illinois River] or well above [Mississippi River] for the 10-year averages for blue-winged teal along the survey route. Click here for a fuller breakdown.

Wild things

Last week at a Pirates-White Sox game, Christian Howe spotted at least two common nighthawks. On Sunday evening, Rob Abouchar messaged, Nighthawks circling in Island Lake. . . . Many readers noted the monarch migration is spiking.

Stray cast

Joe Rogan is to truth what bighead carp are to native species.

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The time of waiting is over, now is the time to at least try for big fall Chinook on the Chicago lakefront; p - Chicago Sun-Times

Hurricane Ida slammed Louisiana as a Category 4 and its remnants went on to trigger disastrous rainfall flooding in the Northeast.

Ida began as Tropical Depression Nine on Aug. 26 while south of the Cayman Islands. Just over six hours later, an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter mission found its winds were strong enough to upgrade to Tropical Storm Ida.

A burst of thunderstorms near Ida's center then allowed it to rapidly intensify into a hurricane on Aug. 27 as it moved over western Cuba.

Ida then took advantage of very warm Gulf water, winds aloft spreading apart and plenty of moist air to rapidly intensify again from Cat. 1 to Cat. 4 status in the 24 hours ending the morning of Aug. 29.

Ida's center crossed the coast near Port Fourchon, Louisiana, at 11:55 a.m. CDT on Aug. 29. Maximum sustained winds were 150 mph, making Ida a high-end Category 4 hurricane.

Ida tied two other hurricanes for the strongest landfall on record in the state of Louisiana based on maximum wind speeds. Laura had 150-mph winds when it tracked into southwest Louisiana last year. The other hurricane to make landfall in Louisiana with winds that high was in 1856.

The hurricane weakened to a tropical storm and then a tropical depression as it tracked over Mississippi on Aug. 30.

From there, Tropical Depression Ida tracked through the Tennessee Valley to as far north as West Virginia by Sept. 1, where it was declared to be a post-tropical remnant. Ida's remnants then teamed up with a stationary front to produce major, deadly rainfall flooding in the Northeast.

Below is a breakdown of Ida's Gulf Coast storm surge, wind and rain impacts followed by a summary of the flooding its remnants caused in the Northeast.

Storm Surge

Storm surge pushed water into many areas outside levee protection in southeast Louisiana, as well as along the coast in Mississippi.

Several NOAA gauges captured peak inundation from 6 to 7 feet above dry ground in Waveland, Mississippi, and Shell Beach, Louisiana, during and even after Ida's landfall as strong onshore winds continued to pile water ashore.

Serious storm surge flooding was accompanied by wind gusts over 100 mph in Grand Isle, Louisiana, and multiple homes were reportedly removed from their foundations by storm surge in Galliano, about 25 miles northwest of Grand Isle.

In Plaquemines Parish, overtopping of a levee submerged the town of Braithwaite, also flooded from Hurricane Isaac in 2012. In Jefferson Parish, flooding swamped areas south of New Orleans including Lafitte and Barataria.

Water almost up to a stop sign was seen flowing through the Venetian Isles neighborhood in New Orleans East, an area under mandatory evacuation outside of protection from levees, according to WDSU TV.

Several feet of storm surge from Lake Pontchartrain coupled with torrential rain was captured in video in LaPlace, about 25 miles west-northwest of downtown New Orleans, entering homes and trapping residents.

The combination of storm surge and torrential rain prompted the NWS to issue rare flash flood emergencies for the lakeshore area of metro New Orleans, and also for St. John the Baptist and St. Charles Parishes, including LaPlace late on Aug. 29.

Post-storm surveys will likely find higher storm surge inundation values near the coast once meteorologists examine buildings for high-water marks.

Winds

The National Weather Service issued several extreme wind warnings for parts of southeast Louisiana on Aug. 29, a rarely-issued warning for tornado-like winds of 115 mph or greater in the eyewall of Ida.

According to NOAA's Best Track database, no Category 3 or stronger hurricane had taken a northward path just west of New Orleans similar to Ida in almost 106 years.

Numerous wind gusts over 100 mph were clocked in far southeast Louisiana near the coast, including in Galliano and Dulac. A gust to 172 mph was measured aboard a ship in Port Fourchon as Ida made landfall, one of the strongest hurricane gusts on record in the U.S.

Damage was reported in many areas of southeast Louisiana, particularly in Lafourche and Terrebonne Parishes.

In the New Orleans metro area, wind gusts up to 99 mph not only downed trees and power lines, but also damaged or destroyed some older buildings. Damage was captured on video in the French Quarter, and in other parts of the city.

The winds knocked out power to all of Orleans Parish due to what Entergy referred to as "catastrophic transmission damage". Over 1 million customers lost power in Louisiana from Ida.

Downed trees littered a stretch of Interstate 10 outside of New Orleans, leaving only one lane passable for a time, according to a video posted in social media.

In Mississippi, winds gusted up to 68 mph at Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport. Trees were downed in parts of central and southern Mississippi, and just over 90,000 customers lost power.

Rainfall Flooding

As if water surging from the Gulf of Mexico wasn't enough, Ida dumped torrential rain in parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the western Florida Panhandle.

Ten to 14 inches of rain was measured in New Orleans before rain ended early Aug. 29. Rigolets-Slidell, Louisiana, reported 15.73 inches of rainfall from Ida.

In Jackson County, Mississippi, an estimated 300 homes were flooded and 150 road closures were prompted. More than 10 inches of rain fell near Bay St. Louis and in Hancock. Streets were also flooded in Hattiesburg and Meridian.

Parts of southern Alabama picked up 7 to 9 inches of rain and Wilmer, Alabama, measured 11.24 inches. Walnut Hill, Florida, tallied 8.20 inches of rain.

The remnant moisture and energy from Ida merged with a front over the mid-Atlantic and Northeast to produce disastrous flooding Sept. 1 into early Sept. 2.

Flemington, New Jersey, had the top rainfall total with 11 inches, but totals over 6 inches were reported in parts of southeast New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

New York City's Central Park picked up 3.15 inches of rainfall in a single hour on the evening of Sept. 1. That's the heaviest one-hour rainfall on record there. Total rainfall for Sept. 1 was 7.13 inches, making it New York City's fifth-wettest day on record dating to 1869.

Newark, New Jersey, picked up 8.41 inches of rain on Sept. 1, making it the wettest calendar day on record there dating to 1931. The previous heaviest rainfall day was 6.73 inches on Nov. 8, 1977.

The Schuylkill River in Philadelphia experienced its worst flood in more than 150 years on the morning of Sept. 2. Its crest of 16.35 feet has only been exceeded one other time. That happened more than 150 years ago in an Oct. 4, 1869 flood when the river hit its all-time record stage of 17 feet.

At least 12 locations on rivers and creeks in New Jersey and Pennsylvania have set a new record flood stage. Here's a rundown of the records so far, among reporting stations with records dating to at least the 20th century:

-Millstone River at Weston, New Jersey

-Musconetong River at Bloomsbury, New Jersey

-North Branch Raritan River Near Raritan, New Jersey

-Middle Brook at Bound Brook, New Jersey

-Bound Brook at Middlesex, New Jersey

-Stony Brook at Princeton, New Jersey

-Raritan River at Manville, New Jersey

-Saddle River at Ridgewood, New Jersey

-Perkiomen Creek at Graterford, Pennsylvania

-Schuylkill River at Norristown, Pennsylvania

-East Branch Brandywine Creek Below Downington, Pennsylvania

-Brandywine Creek at Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania

Destructive tornadoes tore through Annapolis, Maryland; Mullica Hill, New Jersey; and other parts of the Delaware Valley north and south of Trenton, New Jersey.

The Mullica Hill, New Jersey, tornado was the first to be rated at least F/EF3 in the state since Oct. 18, 1990, according to NOAA's database. Doppler radar detected debris from the tornado was lofted to at least 23,000 feet, and may have traveled 30 to 45 miles downstream, according to the National Weather Service.

Roof damage is seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021, in Houma, La. The weather died down shortly before dawn. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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Its time for the Reds to start playing consistently tight baseball, and we dont mean choking. A week into September is not the time to get sleepy on the bases and play first base like a matador. The Reds dont want to look back on games like the one Monday in Chicago and lament, thats one we should have won.

If they dont make the playoffs, theyll have only themselves to blame.

Sixth inning yesterday. The hot Cubs started playing like the Cubs, gifting the Reds runs like it was Christmas at the corner of Waveland and Sheffield. Walk, wild pitch, two hit batters. Reds score 3 on two hits. On the wild one, Suarez neglected to move from second to third. How come?

It looked like Geno just kind of froze up, DBell said, which is as hard as hell ever come down on a player.

That cant happen in September when youre fighting for October and already not playing well. Schrock doubles, which would have scored two and given the Reds the lead, had Suarez moved up on the wild pitch.

Meantime, A. Cabrera allowed two grounders to get past him because he didnt put his body in front of the ball. Maybe in May, this isnt a big deal. This isnt May. Its OK occasionally to lose because the other team was better. Its not OK to lose in September because your mind is drifting.

More: Cincinnati Reds' slide continues with loss to Chicago Cubs in series opener

Four-and-nine in the past two weeks, against clubs theyre leading in the standings. Time to pull their heads out.

The series against Detroit over the weekend was instructive. Riddle me this, if you watched: Which team looked like the playoff-hopeful and which looked like the team waiting for a bus?

SCOFF IF YOU LIKE, but the Reds remain in the wild card drivers seat. Twenty-three games left, nine v. Pirates, four v. the Nats. The Padres have lost 15 of their last 22 and play their next nine against LA and the Giants. Only the Phillies have an easier road than Cincinnati. They play 10 games v. last-place teams and four more v. Colorado. The Phils are a game behind the Reds and two behind San Diego.

AND REMEMBER THIS. . . If the Reds dont play Game 163 this year, their window starts to close. Its very likely were seeing the best right now from Naquin, Miley, Votto, and getting surprisingly good years from India, Stephenson, Gutierrez and Farmer. Castellanos is the soul engine and he very likely wont be here next year.

Its now or never for this crew.

Now, then. . .

BEFORE WE GET TOO DEEP into sports, a moment for Michael K. Williams. You might know him as Omar and if you dont, you should. Omar Little was the best character in an all-star ensemble of them, on The Wire, IMO the best show ever to grace our TVs.

He died Monday. Police are investigating it as a drug overdose.

In the show, Omar was the consummate badass, a loner in a culture of joiners, defined by the sawed-off shotgun that hung from his belt. In real life, he grew up an insecure kid in a rough neighborhood. The NYTimes:

He didnt care what anyone thought about him, Mr. Williams said of Omar, inan interview with GQ in 2020.He had a huge moral compass and he wasnt afraid to express it. I was the complete polar opposite. I was frightened a lot of times growing up. I had a very low self-esteem and a huge need to be accepted. The only thing I knew that I shared with Omar was his sensitivity and his ability to love, and his ability to love deep. I knew that I had that in me.

Im trying to think of another TV character who owned the sway of Omar Little, ever. None comes to mind. Absolutely none. If you never saw The Wire and you appreciate TV drama at its finest, TML sez ckitout.

THE BENGALS. . . This is traditionally the time of year I make the prediction for the Mens season. Most years, its not that difficult to do. Divide the season into fourths, assume the Bengals will lose twice to at least one of their division rivals and take it from there.

This year?

Ive called it the Verge Season for Cincinnati. As in, On The. . .

The gate swings dramatically one way or the other for the Bengals this fall. Either the O-line holds up, Burrow builds on last year and the team wins about eightgames, or the line lacks, Baltimore and the Browns feast, the Bengals dont approach .500 and Zac Taylor and his staff lose their jobs.

Im not worried about JaMarr Chase dropping the ball. Im worried about Joe Burrow getting dropped on his back. The Bengals in the offseason did not do all they could to protect him. Despite the deserved pre-year excitement, they have not shown that they arent, in the immortal words of Carson Palmer, OK with being OK.

More: My confidence never went anywhere, I got hard on myself: JaMarr Chase discusses drops

Their guards are, well, OK. The rookie who was supposed to start immediately, wont. One tackle is nearer the end of his career than the beginning and has never made a Pro Bowl. The other, beset by injuries, remains an unopened package.

Sounds OK to me.

There are ways to scheme around a porous line. But in so doing, you limit the QBs weapons. What good is a deep threat at wide receiver if the QB doesnt have time to get him the ball?

Burrow showed a veterans smarts and poise in his nine-game debut last year. He can keep rushers from teeing off by checking down and limiting the deeper routes. Burrow ranked 25th last season among starting QBs in yards per attempt. His 6.7 YPA was only slightly better than Andy Daltons 6.5.

Thats OK when your defense is limiting opposing TDs. Will the Bengals D be that good this year?

You might like the secondary. Do you like the linebackers? Will the pass rush be better with a full season of Reader pushing the middle? I think their kid kicker Evan McPherson wins them a game they would have lost last year.

Does Joe Mixon block like Gio Bernard blocked?

Their schedule seems to be soft. But who knows about schedules in preseason? Cincinnati should beat the Jets, Jags and Lions. But what if any is better than expected by the time the Bengals play them? What if the Packers are worse?

With all that in mind. . .

The Men will lose twice to either Cleveland or the Ravens and split with Pittsburgh. (Roethlisberger still plays for the Stillers, right?) Division record: 2-4.

More: The Bengals offense has a clear focus for the 2021 season

Non-division games they should win and probably will: Home with Jacksonville, at Detroit and the Jets. (5-4)

Games they should lose and probably will: Home with the Packers and Chiefs. (5-6)

Pick em: Home with the Vikings, Bears, 49ers and Chargers. Road with the Raiders and Broncos. I say they start fast v. Minnesota, stumble in Chicago, beat Las Vegas and lose to the 49ers, Chargers and Broncos. (7-10)

Seven-and-10. Clip and save.

UC STARTS FAST. AND A WORRY. . . Good teams dont assume Ws, the Bearcats certainly didnt Saturday at Nippert v. Miami. They have another softie this week, home against Murray State. Will that be sufficient prep to go on the road and win at Indiana the following week?

More: No. 8/10 Cincinnati Bearcats thump rival Miami RedHawks in season-opener, 49-14

Will it ready them for Oct. 2 in South Bend, in the programs biggest game since the Sugar Bowl Jan. 1, 2010?

HOPE YOUSE HAD A NICE LABOR DAY. . . I thought of my dad Monday. He worked 25 years for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. He was a smart guy, an economics degree from Amherst College, a masters in economics. He was of a generation that believed working for the federal government was an honorable and worthy way to spend a career.

But he didnt like it much.

By the time I was in high school, I decided Id never have a job that (1) required I wear a coat and tie to work (2) commute 9-5, five days a week, 50 weeks a year, to an office and (3) be unhappy with my work a majority of the time.

Since 1979, Ive never worn a tie to work, I walk to my office down the hall in my house when Im not at a game and the worst days I have are still better than any days Id spend in a cubicle eating my lunch out of a brown sack.

That said, Jim Daugherty never missed a day of work. Not one, in 25 years. Among the many things I admired about my dad, that ones way up there. Work never defined him. That's a healthy way to be.

Thats why they call it work, hed say, as he trudged out the door not feeling especially great or facing a long day full of boring meetings. Id like to think Im as conscientious as he was. But that wouldnt be true.

TUNE O THE DAY. . . Before he wrote songs with Cheeseburger in their titles, Jimmy Buffett was a pretty fair country twanger. Living and Dying In Time was a very fine set. This one included.

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Doc's Morning Line: Now's the time for the Cincinnati Reds to button up sloppy play - The Cincinnati Enquirer

There were less than 23 hours remaining until the trade deadline when Anthony Rizzo received a phone call from Vijay Tekchandani, the Cubs director of major league travel and clubhouse operations. Rizzo was hanging out with his wife, Emily, and his parents, John and Laurie, in the players parking lot next to Wrigley Field after a July 29 loss to the Reds. Tekchandani told Rizzo that he needed to sign a baseball which was a request for a young fan and that Cubs manager David Ross needed to see him in the office.

Rizzo crossed Waveland Avenue and walked toward the teams underground clubhouse. During that homestand, word spread among the Wrigley Field gameday staff about Rizzos father reaching out to stadium workers to thank them for taking care of his family over the years during their frequent visits to the 1914 Club, the VIP area behind home plate. Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer had already finalized the Ryan Tepera deal with the White Sox that day, making it two in-game trades in four days. During a July 26 night game, fans in the bleachers had informed the Cubs bullpen that Andrew Chafin was reportedly on the verge of getting traded to Oakland.

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Multiple houses in Gulfport near 27th street are damaged from a possible tornado.

Gusts really picking up in Hancock County.

Views higher up from the Biloxi Bay Bridge.

Hwy 90 in Pass Christian near Espy Ave.

S Beach Blvd in Hancock Co completely flooded

Roadways over by Mikeys on the Bayou in Ocean Springs.

Storm surge flooding from Hurricane Ida on Beach Boulevard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Video: Pascagoula PD.

GULFPORT, MS Portions of Jones Park and the Port of Gulfport are underwater as storm surge from Hurricane Ida continues to push onshore. Parts of U.S. 90 are impassable.

Video from Jones Park in Gulfport, Mississippi

Video from Long Beach, Mississippi

Video from Clermont, Harbor in Bay St. Louis

Port of Gulfport

Intersection of Arlington St and Coleman Ave in Waveland. Water rising fairly quickly on Coleman Ave.

Conditions in Bay St. Louis along S Beach Blvd.

Gulfport

11:30 a.m.-Water is beginning to rise at the Bay St. Louis Municipal Harbor.

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Ida's Remnants Continue to Affect the Northeast

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The remnants of Ida have teamed up with a stalled front to produce widespread heavy rainfall and a significant threat of flooding rain, along with isolated tornadoes, in the Northeast.

Ida inflicted widespread wind and flood damage in southeast Louisiana on Sunday, including in the New Orleans metro area. See this link for the latest details on those impacts and the recovery ahead.

Ida's low-pressure system has tracked through the South and is moving into the Northeast. This combination of ingredients could cause life-threatening flooding from the New York City area into New England into early Thursday.

Several flash flood emergencies were issued Wednesday afternoon and evening due to heavy rainfall. These emergency alerts are issued when life-threatening rainfall is ongoing. These emergencies can be found in pink in the graphic below.

WHAT TO DO: If you're caught in both a flash flood warning AND a tornado warning: Head to the lowest DRY floor of your home or building and move to an interior room.

Radar indicated a few spots closing in on 10 inches between Tuesday and Wednesday from eastern Pennsylvania to New Jersey.

For the latest on impacts in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast see this link.

On Wednesday morning, multiple houses were flooded in West Library, Pennsylvania, and a school bus became stuck in water in Stowe Township. A second bus was rescued along with its 11 passengers in Thurmont, Maryland, Wednesday afternoon.

But flooding escalated Wednesday evening.

More than 4 inches of rain was reported across a wide area of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Tuesday and Wednesday, especially in Pennsylvania and into the New York City metro area. Rain also came down fast. Newark Airport received 3.9 inches of rain in less than 90 minutes Wednesday evening, including a half-inch of rain in 6 minutes. New York's Central Park has also had its wettest day ever.

This kind of rainfall has turned roads - the ones that didn't collapse - into raging rivers and has caused roofs to collapse in New Jersey. Seven people were injured in Kearny, New Jersey, when a 30-foot by 30-foot hole in the ceiling of a U.S. Post Office building fell in due to the weight of heavy water. Cars floated on main streets and near homes and businesses in feet of water. Newark Airport was submerged in feet of water and the New York City subways were shut down. Hundreds of rescues were needed.

The potential for heavy rainfall will expand northward across the Northeast through Wednesday night and then could linger into early Thursday along the Northeast coast. Ida's remnant should push off the East Coast by later Thursday, giving way to a drier weather pattern for the end of the workweek.

Flood watches have been posted by the National Weather Service for this flood threat, from the mid-Atlantic to portions of New England. Where flooding is occurring and poses a significant threat to life, flash flood emergencies have been issued. Those are found in pink below.

In addition, NOAA's Weather Prediction Center (WPC) has issued a rare "high risk" excessive rainfall outlook for Wednesday night from northern New Jersey to the New York City area, much of Connecticut and Rhode Island and into southeastern Massachusetts. When a high risk is issued, the WPC expects severe, widespread flash flooding, potentially including areas that don't normally experience flash flooding.

Some of these areas were recently hit by heavy rain from Tropical Storm Fred and/or Hurricane Henri.

Flash flooding, particularly where bands of rain stall for a period of a few hours and over hilly or mountainous terrain, is expected in these areas through early Thursday.

Flooding of rivers, creeks and streams is likely in at least some locations. Multiple river gauges in parts of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast already are or are forecast to see major river flooding, according to NOAA forecasts. At least one river in eastern Pennsylvania was four feet higher than the previous record crest due to the extraordinary rainfall on Wednesday.

Do not drive through flooded roads and if you live in a location prone to flooding, then be sure to have a way to receive warning information.

WPC expects the mid-Atlantic to Southern New England to receive 3 to 8 inches of rainfall with localized heavier totals through Thursday.

Isolated tornadoes are frequently a concern with inland remnants of tropical systems.

The potential for a few tornadoes, along with damaging wind gusts, will continue in southeastern New England Wednesday night.

Several tornadoes have already occurred, including one that touched down near Annapolis, Maryland, Wednesday afternoon. Two tornadoes touched down around the Philadelphia metro area, Wednesday evening. A tornado also touched down near Burlington, New Jersey.

Ida began as Tropical Depression Nine on Aug. 26 while south of the Cayman Islands. Just over six hours later, an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter mission found its winds were strong enough to upgrade to Tropical Storm Ida.

A burst of thunderstorms near Ida's center then allowed it to rapidly intensify into a hurricane on Aug. 27 as it moved over western Cuba.

Ida then took advantage of very warm Gulf water, winds aloft spreading apart and plenty of moist air to rapidly intensify again from Cat. 1 to Cat. 4 status in 24 hours from Saturday to Sunday morning prior to its landfall.

Ida's center crossed the coast near Port Fourchon, Louisiana, at 11:55 a.m. CDT Sunday. Maximum sustained winds were 150 mph, making Ida a high-end Category 4 hurricane.

Ida tied two other hurricanes for the strongest landfall on record in the state of Louisiana based on maximum wind speeds. Laura had 150-mph winds when it tracked into southwest Louisiana last year. The other hurricane to make landfall in Louisiana with winds that high was in 1856.

(MORE: Hurricane Ida Gives Louisiana Cat. 4 Landfalls in Back-to-Back Season For First Time)

Ida also made landfall on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall in 2005.

Storm Surge

Storm surge pushed water into many areas outside levee protection in southeast Louisiana, as well as along the coast in Mississippi.

Several NOAA gauges captured peak inundation from 6 to 7 feet above dry ground in Waveland, Mississippi, and Shell Beach, Louisiana during and even after Ida's landfall as strong onshore winds continued to pile water ashore.

Serious storm surge flooding was accompanied by wind gusts over 100 mph in Grand Isle, Louisiana, and multiple homes were reportedly removed from their foundations by storm surge in Galliano, about 25 miles northwest of Grand Isle.

In Plaquemines Parish, overtopping of a levee submerged the town of Braithwaite, also flooded from Hurricane Isaac in 2012. In Jefferson Parish, flooding swamped areas south of New Orleans including Lafitte and Barataria.

Water almost up to a stop sign was seen flowing through the Venetian Isles neighborhood in New Orleans East, an area under mandatory evacuation outside of protection from levees, according to WDSU TV.

Several feet of storm surge from Lake Pontchartrain coupled with torrential rain was captured in video in LaPlace, about 25 miles west-northwest of downtown New Orleans, entering homes and trapping residents.

The combination of storm surge and torrential rain prompted the NWS to issue rare flash flood emergencies for the lakeshore area of metro New Orleans, and also for St. John the Baptist and St. Charles Parishes, including LaPlace Sunday night.

Post-storm surveys will likely find higher storm surge inundation values near the coast once meteorologists examine buildings for high-water marks.

Winds

The National Weather Service issued several extreme wind warnings for parts of southeast Louisiana Sunday, a rarely-issued warning for tornado-like winds of 115 mph or greater in the eyewall of Ida.

According to NOAA's Best Track database, no Category 3 or stronger hurricane had taken a northward path just west of New Orleans similar to Ida in almost 106 years.

(MORE: Why New Orleans took such a damaging strike from Ida)

Numerous wind gusts over 100 mph were clocked in far southeast Louisiana near the coast, including in Galliano and Dulac. A gust to 172 mph was measured aboard a ship in Port Fourchon as Ida made landfall, one of the strongest hurricane gusts on record in the U.S.

Damage was reported in many areas of southeast Louisiana, particularly in Lafourche and Terrebonne Parishes.

In the New Orleans metro area, wind gusts up to 99 mph not only downed trees and power lines, but also damaged or destroyed some older buildings. Damage was captured on video in the French Quarter, and in other parts of the city.

The winds knocked out power to all of Orleans Parish due to what Entergy referred to as "catastrophic transmission damage". Over 1 million customers lost power in Louisiana from Ida.

Downed trees littered a stretch of Interstate 10 outside of New Orleans Monday, leaving only one lane passable, according to a video posted in social media.

In Mississippi, winds gusted up to 68 mph at Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport. Trees were downed in parts of central and southern Mississippi, and just over 90,000 customers lost power.

Rainfall Flooding

As if water surging from the Gulf of Mexico wasn't enough, Ida dumped torrential rain in parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the western Florida Panhandle.

Up to almost 14 inches of rain was measured in New Orleans before rain ended early Monday. Rigolets-Slidell, Louisiana, reported 15.73 inches of rainfall from Ida.

In Jackson County, Mississippi, an estimated 300 homes were flooded and 150 road closures were prompted. Between more than 10 inches of rain fell near Bay St. Louis and in Hancock. Streets were also flooded in Hattiesburg and Meridian.

Parts of southern Alabama picked up 7 to 9 inches of rain and Wilmer, Alabama, measured 11.24 inches. Walnut Hill, Florida, tallied 8.20 inches of rain.

More than 4 inches of rainfall was reported in parts of Tennessee and Kentucky, including in Athens, Tennessee, and Hanson, Kentucky.

Tornadoes

Monday, a damaging tornado touched down just north of Mobile, Alabama, damaging a motel, downing trees and flipping an 18-wheeler in Saraland.

Another apparent tornado was observed in video in Pike County, southeast of Troy, Alabama.

Other damage possibly from tornadoes was documented in Jackson County, Mississippi, and Clarke County, Alabama, Monday.

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Schools around the Gulf Coast are releasing information in regards to operations following Hurricane Ida.

The Gulfport School District will open for a regular school day on Tuesday, August 31st.

Due to extensive campus cleanup efforts as a result of Hurricane Idas impact, all of Pearl River Community Colleges locations will remain closed on Tuesday. PRCC will resume normal operations at 8 a.m. Wednesday.

Long Beach School District will implement virtual learning on Tuesday, August 31st.

Hancock County School District will implement virtual learning on Tuesday, August 31st.

St. Patrick Catholic High School will be in session tomorrow, Tuesday, August 31. Classes will begin at 8:15 tomorrow morning.

William Carey Universitys Hattiesburg and Tradition campuses will be open Tuesday, Aug. 31. Classes will meet on their normal schedules, and offices will be open. WCUs Baton Rouge campus will remain closed until further notice. Classes will switch to virtual format as conditions permit.

Tuesday the 31st of August is a virtual day for all students and a normal report day for all staff in the Bay Waveland School District.

All MGCCC classes will be delivered online via Canvas tomorrow, August 31. Face-to-face classes will not take place. All MGCCC employees should report to their campus or center tomorrow, August 31. Residence halls and the dining hall will reopen tomorrow at 5:00 p.m.

Ocean Springs School District returns to normal schedule on Tuesday.

The Jackson County School District will be closed tomorrow Tuesday, August 31.

The Biloxi Public School District will conduct a virtual school day on Tuesday August 31.

Due to heavy flooding caused by Hurricane Ida, the Moss Point School District will be closed on Tuesday, August 31, 2021.

All students and staff in the George County School District will return to school and work as regularly scheduled on Wednesday, September 1. George County Middle School students will remain as Virtual Learners through Thursday, September 2. George County Middle School students will return on Friday, September 3.

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August 30, 2021

Preliminary reports suggest it is the fifth-strongest storm ever to make landfall in the continental U.S.

Exactly 16 years after Katrina made landfall, another major hurricane blew into southern Louisiana. Around noon on August 29, 2021, Hurricane Ida came ashore at Port Fourchon with sustained winds of 150 miles (240 kilometers) per hour and a central pressure of 930 millibars. Preliminary reports suggest it is the fifth strongest hurricane (based on wind speed) ever to make landfall in the continental U.S.

At 2:50 a.m. Central Daylight Time on August 30, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite acquired a nighttime view (above) of Hurricane Ida. On the morning of August 29, the NOAA GOES-16 satellite acquired data for an animation of the menacing eyewall approaching the coast.

In the last 24 hours before landfall, the storms central pressure dropped from 985 millibars to 929, and winds intensified rapidly from 85 to 150 miles per hour. According to the National Hurricane Center, a storm has undergone rapid intensification when winds increase by at least 35 miles per hour within 24 hours. The intensification was partly fueled by the hot summer surface waters of the Gulf of Mexico, which were about 3031 Celsius (8688 Fahrenheit).

August 27 30, 2021

The animation above shows the evolution of Idas wind field between August 2730, 2021. The strongest winds appear bright yellow to white; more moderate winds (still gale-force) are shades of orange and bright purple. Atmospheric data have been run through the Goddard Earth Observing System Model-5 (GEOS-5), a data assimilation model that scientists at NASA use to analyze global weather phenomena. The GEOS model ingests wind data from more than 30 sources, including ships, buoys, radiosondes, dropsondes, aircraft, and satellites. The model output is spaced out on a 0.25 to 0.3 degree grid, so it does not necessarily capture peak gusts and extremes as measured by individual instruments on the surface.

For me, the most compelling aspect of Ida was its rapid intensification up to landfall, said Scott Braun, a scientist who specializes in hurricanes at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center. The storm was very similar to Hurricane Opal and Hurricane Katrina in that they underwent rapid intensification over a region, or eddy, of deep warm water known as the Gulf Loop Current. In addition to providing warm water for fuel, such eddies impede the mixing of colder water to the surface. Such cooling would typically lead to storm weakening, or at least an end to strengthening. Both Opal and Katrina weakened before landfall, mitigating the impacts of the storms to some extent, even though they were obviously still bad. In Ida, near-coast weakening did not really occur.

The hurricane pushed a wall of watera storm surgeonto the coast of Louisiana and Mississippi. Weather stations and media reports noted surges ranging from 3 to 9 feet (1 to 3 meters) in places like Grande Isle, Shell Beach, Lafitte, Barataria, Port Fourchon, and Bay Waveland. Port Fourchon is a major commercial and industrial hub for the United States, particularly for oil and gas.

August 30, 2021

The storm lingered over southern Louisiana for most of August 29, dropping flood-provoking rainfall before moving north and east into Mississippi and Alabama on August 30. The slow pace of the storm may have amplified the serious damage to electric power and drinking water infrastructure, while delaying the start of cleanup. More than 1 million customers (businesses, households) in Louisiana had reportedly lost power by midday on August 30. Another 100,000 customers lost electricity in Mississippi and 12,000 in Alabama. The map above shows the distribution of power outages as compiled by PowerOutage.US from publicly accessible data sources.

I was interested in Idas translational speed after landfall, said Hui Su, who studies hurricanes at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory. There have been studies that have talked about how global warming causes the slowing down of tropical cyclones, which can contribute to greater flooding and inundation damages. (For example, hurricanes Harvey and Dorian.) There are still debates because of the quality of historical data, but climate model simulations show that the translational speed of hurricanes would decrease with global warming.

NASA Earth Observatory images and video by Joshua Stevens, using VIIRS day-night band data from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership, GEOS-5 data from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at NASA GSFC, and power outage data courtesy of PowerOutage.us.

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The remnants of Ida will team up with a stalled front to produce a significant threat of flooding rain and isolated tornadoes from parts of the Appalachians into the mid-Atlantic and Northeast through early Thursday.

Ida inflicted widespread wind and flood damage in southeast Louisiana on Sunday, including in the New Orleans metro area. See this link for the latest details on those impacts and the recovery ahead.

Ida's low-pressure system will now track from out of the South into the mid-Atlantic through early Thursday, where it will join up with a front draped across that region. This combination of ingredients could cause dangerous rainfall flooding from parts of the Appalachians into the mid-Atlantic and Northeast.

Radar, Watches and Warnings

The potential for heavy rainfall will expand northward across the East through Wednesday and then could linger into early Thursday along the Northeast coast. Ida's remnant should push off the East Coast by later Thursday, giving way to a drier weather pattern for the end of the workweek.

Flood watches have been posted by the National Weather Service for this flood threat, from the southern Appalachians to as far north as southeast New York and southern New England. Charleston, West Virginia, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and New York City are included in these watches.

In addition, NOAA's Weather Prediction Center (WPC) has issued a rare "high risk" excessive rainfall outlook for Wednesday and Wednesday night from far northern West Virginia into southern Pennsylvania, the New York City area and southern Connecticut. When a high risk is issued, the WPC expects severe, widespread flash flooding, potentially including areas that don't normally experience flash flooding.

Some of these areas were recently hit by heavy rain from Tropical Storm Fred and/or Hurricane Henri.

Flash flooding, particularly where bands of rain stall for a period of a few hours and over hilly or mountainous terrain, is expected in these areas through early Thursday.

Flooding of rivers, creeks and streams is likely in at least some locations. Multiple river gauges in parts of the mid-Atlantic and central Appalachians are forecast to see minor, moderate or even major river flooding, according to NOAA forecasts.

Do not drive through flooded roads and if you live in a location prone to flooding, then be sure to have a way to receive warning information.

WPC is forecasting the following storm total rainfall amounts.

-Portions of the Southeast, including the western Florida Panhandle, eastern and northern Alabama and northern Georgia: an additional 1 to 3 inches through Wednesday morning.

-Middle Tennessee Valley to the Ohio Valley and the central and southern Appalachians: 3 to 6 inches, with localized heavier totals.

-Mid-Atlantic to Southern New England: 3 to 8 inches with localized heavier totals Wednesday into Thursday.

Isolated tornadoes are frequently a concern with inland remnants of tropical systems

The potential for a few tornadoes, along with damaging wind gusts, will continue in the mid-Atlantic and eastern Carolinas Wednesday. The greatest threat for tornadoes Wednesday includes the Baltimore and Washington D.C. areas.

Tornado Potential Wednesday - Wednesday Night

Ida began as Tropical Depression Nine on Aug. 26 while south of the Cayman Islands. Just over six hours later, an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter mission found its winds were strong enough to upgrade to Tropical Storm Ida.

A burst of thunderstorms near Ida's center then allowed it to rapidly intensify into a hurricane on Aug. 27 as it moved over western Cuba.

Ida then took advantage of very warm Gulf water, winds aloft spreading apart and plenty of moist air to rapidly intensify again from Cat. 1 to Cat. 4 status in 24 hours from Saturday to Sunday morning prior to its landfall.

Ida's center crossed the coast near Port Fourchon, Louisiana, at 11:55 a.m. CDT Sunday. Maximum sustained winds were 150 mph, making Ida a high-end Category 4 hurricane.

Ida tied two other hurricanes for the strongest landfall on record in the state of Louisiana based on maximum wind speeds. Laura had 150-mph winds when it tracked into southwest Louisiana last year. The other hurricane to make landfall in Louisiana with winds that high was in 1856.

(MORE: Hurricane Ida Gives Louisiana Cat. 4 Landfalls in Back-to-Back Season For First Time)

Ida also made landfall on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall in 2005.

Storm Surge

Storm surge pushed water into many areas outside levee protection in southeast Louisiana, as well as along the coast in Mississippi.

Several NOAA gauges captured peak inundation from 6 to 7 feet above dry ground in Waveland, Mississippi, and Shell Beach, Louisiana during and even after Ida's landfall as strong onshore winds continued to pile water ashore.

In Plaquemines Parish, overtopping of a levee submerged the town of Braithwaite, also flooded from Hurricane Isaac in 2012. In Jefferson Parish, flooding swamped areas south of New Orleans including Lafitte and Barataria.

Water almost up to a stop sign was seen flowing through the Venetian Isles neighborhood in New Orleans East, an area under mandatory evacuation outside of protection from levees, according to WDSU TV.

Several feet of storm surge from Lake Pontchartrain coupled with torrential rain was captured in video in LaPlace, about 25 miles west-northwest of downtown New Orleans, entering homes and trapping residents.

The combination of storm surge and torrential rain prompted the NWS to issue rare flash flood emergencies for the lakeshore area of metro New Orleans, and also for St. John the Baptist and St. Charles Parishes, including LaPlace Sunday night.

Post-storm surveys will likely find higher storm surge inundation values near the coast once meteorologists examine buildings for high-water marks.

Winds

The National Weather Service issued several extreme wind warnings for parts of southeast Louisiana Sunday, a rarely-issued warning for tornado-like winds of 115 mph or greater in the eyewall of Ida.

According to NOAA's Best Track database, no Category 3 or stronger hurricane had taken a northward path just west of New Orleans similar to Ida in almost 106 years.

(MORE: Why New Orleans took such a damaging strike from Ida)

Numerous wind gusts over 100 mph were clocked in far southeast Louisiana near the coast, including in Galliano and Dulac. A gust to 172 mph was measured aboard a ship in Port Fourchon as Ida made landfall, one of the strongest hurricane gusts on record in the U.S.

Damage was reported in many areas of southeast Louisiana, particularly in Lafourche and Terrebonne Parishes.

In the New Orleans metro area, wind gusts up to 99 mph not only downed trees and power lines, but also damaged or destroyed some older buildings. Damage was captured on video in the French Quarter, and in other parts of the city.

The winds knocked out power to all of Orleans Parish due to what Entergy referred to as "catastrophic transmission damage". Over 1 million customers lost power in Louisiana from Ida.

Downed trees littered a stretch of Interstate 10 outside of New Orleans Monday, leaving only one lane passable, according to a video posted in social media.

In Mississippi, winds gusted up to 68 mph at Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport. Trees were downed in parts of central and southern Mississippi, and just over 90,000 customers lost power.

Rainfall Flooding

As if water surging from the Gulf of Mexico wasn't enough, Ida dumped torrential rain in parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the western Florida Panhandle.

Up to almost 14 inches of rain was measured in New Orleans before rain ended early Monday. Rigolets-Slidell, Louisiana, reported 15.73 inches of rainfall from Ida.

In Jackson County, Mississippi, an estimated 300 homes were flooded and 150 road closures were prompted. Between more than 10 inches of rain fell near Bay St. Louis and in Hancock. Streets were also flooded in Hattiesburg and Meridian.

Parts of southern Alabama picked up 7 to 9 inches of rain and Wilmer, Alabama, measured 11.24 inches. Walnut Hill, Florida, tallied 8.20 inches of rain.

Tornadoes

Monday, a damaging tornado touched down just north of Mobile, Alabama, damaging a motel, downing trees and flipping an 18-wheeler in Saraland.

Another apparent tornado was observed in video in Pike County, southeast of Troy, Alabama.

Other damage possibly from tornadoes was documented in Jackson County, Mississippi, and Clarke County, Alabama, Monday.

Roof damage is seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021, in Houma, La. The weather died down shortly before dawn. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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