Strong Storm Freddy Set to Hit Mozambique Again

[malaise]

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https://www.voanews.com/a/strong-storm-freddy-set-to-hit-mozambique-again-/6999871.html#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20strongest%20storms,February%206%2C%2033%20days%20ago.

Tropical Storm Freddy was on track to hit the coast of southern Africa again early Saturday, after killing at least 27 people in Mozambique and Madagascar since it first made landfall last month.

One of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere, Freddy may also have broken the record for the longest-lasting tropical cyclone, according to the World Meteorological Organization, which said the current record is held by a 31-day hurricane in 1994.

Freddy was named on February 6, 33 days ago.
More than 171,000 people were affected when the cyclone swept through southern Mozambique two weeks ago, bringing heavy rains and floods that damaged crops and destroyed houses, according to U.N. humanitarian agency OCHA


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[quote]The storm has generated about as much accumulated cyclone energy on its own as an average North Atlantic hurricane season, Nullis said.

"World record or not, Freddy will remain in any case an exceptional phenomenon for the history of the southwest Indian Ocean on many aspects: longevity, distance covered, remarkable maximum intensity, accumulated cyclone energy amount, [and] impact on inhabited lands," said Sebastien Langlade, a cyclone forecaster at the Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre in La Reunion, in a statement from the WMO.[/quote]

[2naSalit]

1. Been watching that...

Holy cow! I've been watching some strange goings on around the globe weather-wise. There are some very odd things happening all over. I saw Freddy forming and its path this whole time, just unreal.

[malaise]

3. This one is really weird

[Delphinus]

2. So worrying

My goodness.

[malaise]

4. And these countries sure can't afford this climate mess

Humans have to change our ways

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Here's the track it's followed

https://zoom.earth/storms/freddy-2023/#overlays=fires

Across the centre of Madagascar (about 110 mph at the east coast, dropping to 45mph by the time it's at the west), then due west to Mozambique - about 70 mph by the time it hits. Then 6 days there and inland as far as Zimbabwe - and heading back to the coast. But it's still a rotating storm, so it picks up from 15 mph and grows to 50 mph as it heads due east back to Madagascar over the warm water. Once there, it turns and heads north-west - increasing to 115 mph in the middle of the Mozambique Channel. It's hitting the northern Mozambique coast now, at about 110 mph.

[malaise]

7. Freaking wow!

Thanks for that

[dembotoz]

6. somewhere is a fundy minister blaming it on da gays