SIO: FREDDY - Remnants

[cycloneye]

The death toll rises to 522 in the three countries it affected Malawi, Mozambique and Madagascar.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/1 ... passes-500

[Hurricane2022]

The death toll rises to 522 in the three countries it affected Malawi, Mozambique and Madagascar.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/1 ... passes-500

Unfortunately Wikipedia data shows that the death toll related to Cyclone Freddy is much higher at 522. It is currently close to 700 victims with more than 400 still missing.

[Hurricane2022]

Very very sad news. Freddy is now the 2nd deadliest TC ever recorded in the SHEM surpassing TC IDAI in 2019, as per wikipedia.

[cycloneye]

WMO declared Freddy as the longest TC on record. Below is the information:

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has declared Tropical Cyclone Freddy to be the longest-lasting tropical cyclone on record, at 36 days. Freddy crossed from Australia to Africa from February 4 to March 14, 2023, causing major human and economic losses in the worst-affected countries.

A WMO international committee of experts working under the auspices of the Weather and Climate Extremes Archive, including Sim Aberson from NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory, conducted a detailed analysis and verification of the distance and duration. The evaluation committee recognized Tropical Cyclone Freddy’s duration of 36 days at tropical storm status or higher as the new world record for the longest tropical cyclone duration. In terms of distance, the WMO analysis indicated that TC Freddy traveled 12,785 km (7,945 miles, 6,905 nautical miles) at tropical storm status or above. To put that number in perspective, that distance is nearly 33% of the Earth’s circumference.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/f ... ne-history