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...Ida's Serious Impact to Coast and at Sea...

Ida is on track to make an unusually late landfall for a tropical cyclone upon the Gulf Coast. Landfall is forecast for Tuesday. Up through the time of landfall and for a while thereafter, a range of serious impacts will accompany Ida, both at the coast and at sea.

As a hurricane over the open Gulf well into the day on Monday, Ida's high winds will kick up high waves of up to 20 feet. While the highest waves will stay well off shore, they will still lead to high, rough surf along many Gulf Coast beaches.

High winds of 40 to 60 mph will belt the coast in a swathe to either side of Ida's landfall. The strongest coastal winds will strike on Tuesday, when an early landfall is forecast.

Tides will run higher than normal through Tuesday along most of the Gulf coast from Florida to Texas. At the time of high tide, minor flooding will take place. Then again, there will also be some storm surge along with the landfall of Ida. Status at landfall is forecast to be as a tropical storm, so a storm surge of a few feet will be possible.

New Orleans, highly susceptible to any tropical cyclone, is forecast to be outside of the direct path of Ida. Minor tide flooding will happen in unprotected areas and there will be rain heavy enough to trigger flooding.

Another storm impact will be that of flooding rain. Excessive rain will threaten flooding in a corridor from southern and eastern Louisiana eastward into Georgia and the Carolinas.

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...Major Flood Threat Owing to Ida...

Heavy rain will break out along the central Gulf coast on Sunday night and Monday. From here, it will spread eastward and northward ahead of Ida and will reach the Georgia and much of the Carolinas by later Tuesday. Stream and urban flooding will be likely within this corridor. More serious impact will be possible.

Much of the belt spanning such cities as New Orleans, La., Mobile, Ala., Montgomery, Ala., Pensacola, Fla., and Atlanta, Ga., will see rainfall of 2-4 inches through Tuesday. Again, urban and stream flooding will be common in areas having as much rain. Travel will be slowed and locally disrupted by storm runoff.

A narrower core having rainfall to 6 inches is forecast for southern Louisiana to southern Alabama. Flood impact here could be serious on from city streets to streams and even rivers.

Importantly, this rash of heavy rain will unfold to the south and east -- and thus down stream -- of the site of ongoing major flooding in northern Louisiana and southernmost Arkansas. Good news is that an already serious situation will not be made any worse.

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