Did tropical cyclone Freddy bring rain to Mozambique and Malawi?
True color corrected reflectance image of Tropical Cyclone Freddy continuing to bring rain to Mozambique and Malawi on March 13, 2023.
This image was acquired by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite ( VIIRS) aboard the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership ( Suomi NPP) satellite.
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How long has Freddy lasted?
Freddy has finally been declared over by the French Meteorological service.
The storm was named by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology on 4 February and and finally came to an end on 14 March.
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How much cyclone energy does Freddy have?
However, Freddy does hold the record for all-time accumulated cyclone energy (ACE), a measure of the storm’s strength over time, for the Southern Hemisphere, as well as globally, since Cyclone Ioke in 2006.
Freddy has already generated about 66 units of ACE, beating the previous record of 53, formerly held by Cyclone Fantala in 2016.
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How powerful was Storm Freddy?
The classic way of measuring the strength of a storm is by its wind speed.
At its strongest Freddy was the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane with winds in excess of 160mph (260 km/h).
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Is cyclone Freddy the world's longest-lived tropical storm?
"Deadly cyclone Freddy has become Earth's longest-lived tropical storm".
The Washington Post.
Archived from the original on 7 March 2023.
Retrieved 7 March 2023. ^ Biswas, Ramakanta (8 March 2023). "Cyclone Freddy:
- Know all about world's longest-lived tropical storm"
Cyclone Freddy:Know all about world's longest-lived tropical storm.
Odisha TV.
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Overview
Malawi, Madagascar and Mozambique are reeling from the effects of Tropical Cyclone Freddy.
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What is the difference between a Cyclone and a tropical storm?
A Tropical Cyclone in the Indian Ocean is stronger than a tropical storm.
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What is the difference between a cyclone, a typhoon and a hurricane?
They are all huge storms but how they're defined depends on where they're formed.
In the Atlantic and East Pacific they become hurricanes, in the West Pacific they're typhoons and in the Indian Ocean and near Australia they're called cyclones.
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What will Storm Freddy do next?
Freddy has now broken up, but its remnants are still causing rain across parts of Mozambique and Malawi which could worsen the flood situation.
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Where did tropical cyclone Freddy come from?
Around 7:20 p.m. local time on February 21, 2023, Tropical Cyclone Freddy made landfall on the eastern coast of Madagascar 18 miles north of the town of Mananjary.
It was the first land the storm encountered after traveling more than 4,000 miles across the Indian Ocean since forming on February 5 near Indonesia.