Ida is pretty healthy right now.  With sustained winds of 105 mph as of the 6PM CDT update, Ida is a strong category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale.

Tomorrow and Tuesday, Ida should start to weaken as it encounters more upper-level wind shear and moves into somewhat cooler waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

Ida is expected to make landfall between eastern Louisiana and the Florida panhandle late Monday or early Tuesday.  No one really knows how strong the storm will be at that point.  Ida will be interesting to watch to say the least.  We’ll keep you posted.

Meteorologist Cheryl Nelson