Tropical Cyclone Freddy is about to make a second attack on Mozambique, a country in southeastern Africa that is still recovering from the effects of the first storm.
Over the channel, the United Nations monitoring station on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean has issued a warning that Freddy is expected to intensify gradually to the level of a tropical cyclone or even an intense tropical cyclone. Overnight from Friday to Saturday, it will make landfall on the coast of Mozambique.
Freddy is expected to intensify this Thursday as it approaches the coast of Mozambique, with winds at sea averaging 110 km/h, gusts of 155 km/h, and heading northeast. The storm is expected to make landfall in the province of Zambezia, which is the second most populous in the country.
The reappearance of the tropical cyclone known as Freddy has confounded meteorologists, primarily due to its unpredictable shifts in direction and numerous records set. Notably, Freddy exhibited a fourfold intensification, marking the first occurrence of such an event among Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclones. Furthermore, Freddy holds the global record for “accumulated cyclonic energy”, a metric used to evaluate the strength of a cyclone over an extended period.