How IDA went from a category 1 to 4 in about 24 hours
 

How Hurricane Ida Got So Big So Fast - Scientific American

For all the meteorology buffs out there, here is an interesting article which might be worth while tucking away for future refresher prior to every August hurricane season.

Aug Sept tend to have the biggest southern storms. .

We went through the beginnings of IDA, for a couple of days in Aruba last week, before it reached tropical storm status. Now back up north, and will get some of it's rain again on Thursday.

Ida was indeed unique, but too bad Scientific American had to throw in so much climate alarmism. Even though Ida rapidly intensified from Cat 1 to Cat 4, Hurricane Patricia (in the eastern Pacific) in 2015 intensified from a smaller Tropical Storm to a bigger Cat 5 in 24 hours. There were surely more rapidly intensifying storms that we don't know about due to a serious lack of ocean buoys and limited reconnaissance aircraft and flight range. And that "climate alarmism" game can be played both ways, with this headline ... "Hurricane Ida succumbs to climate change as it failed to reach Cat 5."

It does not much research to see what happened. Most of the bad storms come through the Gulf of Mexico(hot water and low wind shear) and head to the gulf states. Great examples are Camille and Katrina. Irma almost took same path but dissapated while going up Florida's spine.