{"id":130238,"date":"2021-08-31T18:01:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T12:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=130238"},"modified":"2021-09-01T12:15:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T06:45:05","slug":"hurricane-ida-hits-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hurricane-ida-hits-louisiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Ida hits Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hurricane Ida hits Louisiana\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in The Hindu on 31st August, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hurricane Ida has <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">made landfall in Louisiana, US. It is an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm and one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What are Hurricanes?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Hurricane<\/b> is <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the name given to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/how-tropical-cyclones-are-formed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tropical cyclones <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">occurring in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are large, swirling storms that are formed over the warm ocean waters.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When a storm&#8217;s maximum sustained winds reach 74 mph, it is called a hurricane.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Note: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tropical Cyclones are known by different names in different regions:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cyclones in the Indian Ocean<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Typhoons in the Western Pacific in the South China Sea<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Willy-Willies in Western Australia<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Categorization of Hurricanes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Hurricanes are categorized using the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which is a <\/span><b>1 to 5 rating<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> based on a hurricane\u2019s <\/span><b>sustained wind speed<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Category 1: Winds 74 to 95 mph (Minor damage)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Category 2: Winds 96 to 110 mph (Extensive damage)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Category 3: Winds 111 to 129 mph (Devastating)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Category 4: Winds 130 to 156 mph (Catastrophic damage)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Category 5: Winds 157 mph or higher (The absolute worst and can level houses and destroy buildings)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: This post is based on the article \u201cHurricane Ida hits Louisiana\u201d published in The Hindu on 31st August, 2021. What is the News? Hurricane Ida has made landfall in Louisiana, US. It is an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm and one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the US. What are Hurricanes?&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hurricane-ida-hits-louisiana\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hurricane Ida hits Louisiana<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700799941,"cached_date":1704661821},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}