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Factbox: Why is Cyclone Freddy a record-breaking storm?

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Last updated: 2023/03/14 at 9:12 PM
News Room Published March 14, 2023
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JOHANNESBURG, March 14 (Reuters) – Tropical cyclone Freddy hit the coast of southern Africa for a second time over the weekend, bringing its total death toll to more than 220 people in Malawi, Mozambique and Madagascar.

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HIGHEST CYCLONE ENERGYRECORD LENGTHMOST CYCLES OF INTENSIFICATIONUNUSUAL PATH

The month-long storm has broken at least one record and could break two more, meteorologists say.

As climate change causes warmer oceans, heat energy from the water’s surface is fuelling stronger storms.

Below are some of the main reasons Freddy is noteworthy.

HIGHEST CYCLONE ENERGY

Freddy holds the record for most accumulated cyclone energy (ACE), a measure based on a storm’s wind strength over its lifetime, of any storm in the southern hemisphere and possibly worldwide.

Freddy has generated about as much accumulated cyclone energy as an average full North Atlantic hurricane season, according to the World Meteorological Organization.

By last week it was in second place for the most accumulated cyclone energy of any storm since 1980, with the record held by Hurricane and Typhoon Ioke in 2006.

Some estimates show that Freddy has since broken that record, with 86 ACE compared to Ioke’s 85 ACE.

RECORD LENGTH

Freddy may have broken the record for longest-lasting tropical cyclone on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization.

Branches of trees sway as cyclone Freddy hits, in Quelimane, Zambezia, Mozambique, March 12, 2023, in this screen grab taken from a handout video. UNICEF Mozambique/2023/Alfredo Zuniga/Handout via REUTERS

The current record is held by a 31-day hurricane in 1994.

Freddy first developed on Feb. 6 and made its second landfall on the coast of Mozambique on March 11, 34 days later.

However, experts still have to look at several factors, such as the fact that it weakened below tropical cyclone status at some points during that time, in order to determine whether it broke the record, the World Meteorological Organization said.

MOST CYCLES OF INTENSIFICATION

Freddy appears to have broken the world record for the most bouts of rapid intensification, defined as an increase in wind speed of 35 miles per hour in a period of 24 hours.

Freddy had seven separate cycles of rapid intensification, according to satellite estimates, said the World Meteorological Organization. The previous record was four, which was reached by several hurricanes.

The World Meteorological Organization will set up an expert committee to examine this record, as well as the others, it said.

UNUSUAL PATH

Freddy developed off the coast of Australia, crossed the entire South Indian Ocean and travelled more than 8,000 km (4,970 miles) to make landfall in Madagascar and Mozambique in late February.

It then looped back and hit the coast of Mozambique again two weeks later, before moving inland to Malawi.

“No other tropical cyclones observed in this part of the world have taken such a path across the Indian Ocean in the past two decades,” said the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in an article.

Only four storms have crossed the southern Indian Ocean from east to west, with the last one in 2000, it said.

Reporting by Nellie Peyton
Editing by Alexander Winning and Angus MacSwan

Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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