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1/9. 🌀Devastating tropical #CycloneFreddy, which has made landfall twice 🤯, has caused #LossAndDamage in #Madagascar🇲🇬, #Mozambique 🇲🇿 and #Maliwi 🇲🇼 including 220+ deaths, whilst breaking records as the longest lasting cyclone. Cyclone Freddy as it weakens over Mozambique following its s
2/9. In #Madagascar🇲🇬, at least 17 people have died due to #CycloneFreddy (7 from the first landfall on 21 February and 10 from the latest rains on 5 and 6 March), and nearly 299,000 people have affected.
3/9. In #Mozambique 🇲🇿, #CycloneFreddy has seen some provinces received as much rain in 24 hours as they would usually experience in one month. As a result 10 people have died and 14 have been injured, 1,900 houses have been damaged or destroyed.
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#BREAKING Cyclone Freddy kills 15 in Malawi, Mozambique: authorities
#UPDATE Fifteen people have died in Malawi and Mozambique as #CycloneFreddy hit the two countries with torrential rains and strong winds on its return to southern Africa's mainland, authorities said on Monday ➡️ u.afp.com/iham

📷 images show Quelimane, Mozambique
#BREAKING Death toll from Cyclone Freddy jumps to 66 in Malawi: Red Cross
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The high intensity ensemble model forecasts for #CycloneFreddy #Freddy have always indicated the possibility of it turning and exiting before landfall.

And now the HRWF cyclone model is indicating this also.
However a very large cyclone sitting off the coast can still produce very large quantities of rain.

But the catastrophic rainfalls indicated yesterday 300-500mms of rain deep inland may not now eventuate.
The storm has experienced startling intensification over the past few hours in line with the model.

View current Diagnostic imagery

NOAA ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/floate…

CMISS tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/stor…
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Freddy remains a massive storm taking up nearly the entire Mozambique Channel - outer bands are already over the African coast.

The latest forecast predictions contain a range of possibilities & the latest ensemble mean model forecast is very bad in terms of additional flooding… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The last two days of development. 7-8 March.
And 8-9 March. Freddy is strengthening rapidly on approach to the mainland - and remains embedded within and fueled by an AR coming in from the North East.
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Here's an earlier vioew from theis morning while the spinning up cyclone - now commencing its second pass across the Mozambique Channel started intensifying rapidly, very quickly developing a clear eye.
Here's a 24h animation over night and into this morning.
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🌀⚠️CYCLONE FREDDY MAKING HIS WAY TO MOZAMBIQUE THEN NORHTERN SA ⚠️🌀:

Freddy is located 256 km south-southwest of Antananarivo, Madagascar, and has moved westward at 26 km/h (14 knots) over the past 6 hours.

#Freddy #CycloneFreddy

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Having made landfall on Tuesday night over the east coast of Madagascar, Freddy is forecast to track generally west southwestward as it is ripped apart by the mountainous eastern region of Madagascar.
FREDDY represents a significant flood risk for Madagascar as soils are already saturated in central parts of the island from the impact of Cyclone Cheneso, which stalled off the west coast of the island and brought torrential rains in late January
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