Use: Hurricane Ida strengthens, winds up to 185 km

(ANSA) - NEW ORLEANS, AUGUST 29 - Hurricane Ida has strengthened and has risen to category 3 with winds reaching 185 kilometers per hour. This was reported by the US National Center for Hurricanes. The New Orleans airport has canceled all scheduled departing and arriving flights for today, in view of Ida's arrival which is expected to touch the Louisiana coasts as a category 4 in the next few hours.

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Rapid strengthening

is expected to continue in the next 12 hours. and that Ida will be an extremely dangerous hurricane when it lands on the Louisiana coast this afternoon, ”the center said. (HANDLE).