Cyclone Freddy piling inland over Mozambique - March 12, 2023

Cyclone Freddy made landfall near Quelimane on Saturday evening with winds of 175 kilometers per hour (110mph), and a central pressure near 962mb. The storm has continued to move inland at around 2 miles per hour (3kph), delivering a catastrophic surge and torrential rainfall to the region. Further rainfall totals of 26 inches (650mm) is expected, on top of what has already occurred, with wide areas of northern Mozambique, southern Malawi and parts of Zambia receiving flooding rains over the next few days. Model forecasts for Freddy are starting to favour more time inland, resulting in a much weakened storm when it emerges back out over the Mozambique Channel and once again back towards southern Madagascar, as a moderate tropical storm. There remains the possibility that the storm continues further northwestwards and fails to exit the coast later on, thus ending Freddy's record-breaking life as the longest lived tropical cyclone on record. Elsewhere, areas of interest in the South Pacific are also likely to develop near Vanuatu and Samoa, with another highly unusual system west of Peru that has a low chance of developing as it moves southwestwards. We now have live animated satellite imagery on the Force Thirteen website, at https://www.force-13.com/satellite Support us by using all of our outlets below! ↓ Become a Channel Member ► https://www.youtube.com/forcethirteen/join Become a Patron ► https://www.patreon.com/forcethirteen View our Merchandise Store ► https://teespring.com/stores/force-thirteen Join our Discord Server ► https://discord.gg/forcethirteen Follow us on Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/ForceThirteen/ Follow us on Twitter ► https://twitter.com/ForceThirteen Subscribe to Force Thirteen ► https://www.youtube.com/c/Forcethirteen?sub_confirmation=1