(3 minutes read)
Mozambique is bracing for a second hit by long-living Tropical Cyclone Freddy late on Friday night. The United Nations monitoring station on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion warned that cyclone Freddy would gradually intensify to the stage of a tropical cyclone or even an intense tropical cyclone and would blow over the Mozambique Channel before making landfall overnight in the southern African country.
Mozambique is bracing for a second hit by long-living Tropical Cyclone Freddy late on Friday night. The United Nations monitoring station on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion warned that cyclone Freddy would gradually intensify to the stage of a tropical cyclone or even an intense tropical cyclone and would blow over the Mozambique Channel before making landfall overnight in the southern African country.
Freddy is expected to intensify its speed as it approaches coastal Mozambique. The current wind speed at sea is averaging 110 kilometers (around 70 miles) per hour. Gusts of 155 kilometers (around 100 miles) an hour are noticed moving in the north-easterly direction. It is expected to make landfall in Zambezia, the country’s second most populous province.
Read Also:
https://trendsnafrica.com/port-beira-of-mozambique-highest-ranked-port-in-southern-africa/
https://trendsnafrica.com/port-beira-of-mozambique-highest-ranked-port-in-southern-africa/
Freddy created havoc in eastern Madagascar last month. It then moved across the channel and landed in Mozambique. Twelve people lost their lives because of the cyclone, which affected over 213,000 people and destroyed over 28,000 homes in the Mozambican capital of Maputo and nearby provinces. November to April is known as the cyclone season in the southwest Indian Ocean. This time around climate change is intensifying cyclones, making them longer, wetter, and more frequent.
