As Hurricane Ida bears down on Louisiana and New Orleans, forecasters are worried the storm will explode in size and strength.
A phenomenon known as rapid intensification occurs when a hurricane’s winds increase by about 35 miles per hour over the course of 24 hours, said Bob Henson, a meteorologist and the author of The Thinking Person’s Guide to Climate Change. Some of the worst storms in Atlantic history have done just that, including 2018’s Michael -- the last Category 5 system to strike the U.S.
The National Hurricane Center said Ida could rapidly intensify as it rolls north after making landfall in Cuba. Conditions are near perfect across the Gulf of Mexico to support a storm and one of the telltale signs it’s happening will be a heavy burst of lightning wrapping around the storm’s core.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-27/ida-threatens-to-rapidly-intensify-upon-approach-to-new-orleans
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