Authorities on the Gulf Coast of the United States have issued more dire warnings as Hurricane Ida is expected to bring heavy rains, a tidal surge across much of the Louisiana shoreline and winds of up to 225km per hour (140mph) to the region this weekend.Forecasters said the storm could make a US landfall as an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale.On Saturday morning, Ida was about 700km (435 miles) southeast of Houma, Louisiana, packing top winds of 136kmph (85mph) and tracking towards a late Sunday landfall, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami said.
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