Analysis: Cyclone Freddy has battered Mozambique and become the Earth’s longest-lived tropical storm.
As Freddy made landfall on Sunday in central Mozambique for a second time in the space of a few weeks, lashing a stretch of southern Africa with heavy rains and winds, it also may have solidified its status as one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever observed in the southern hemisphere.
That’s the growing assessment of the world’s meteorological community, as my colleague Matthew Cappucci reported. Freddy emerged around Feb. 6 off the coasts of Indonesia and Western Australia, transited thousands of miles west across the Indian Ocean before striking the island of Madagascar on Feb. 19 and then making landfall in Mozambique on Feb. 24, where it flooded towns, devastated crops and plunged communities in darkness.
He added: “As of Saturday evening, Freddy had tallied somewhere in the neighborhood of 86 ACE units, surpassing the record of 85.26 set by hurricane and typhoon Ioke in August to September 2006. That’s more ACE than 100 of the past 172 Atlantic hurricane seasons — not individual storms, but entireCyclone Freddy struck central Mozambique on March 12 after making landfall for a second time in a month. This ferocity has had grim human impact.
Death tolls are unclear, given the difficulty local authorities have had in reaching storm-hit areas, but dozens have died in Madagascar, Mozambique and Malawi due to the impact of Freddy. The commissioner of the Department of Disaster Management Affairs, Charles Kalemba,
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