Cyclone Freddy is expected to make another landfall in Mozambique at the weekend, a rare second time that the same tropical storm has hit a country weeks apart.
Weather experts warned late Tuesday that Cyclone Freddy was making its ways towards Mozambique and was expected to make a second landfall late Friday or early Saturday morning.
The experts say the storm has reappeared in the Indian Ocean and is expected to “gradually intensify to the stage of a tropical cyclone or even an intense tropical cyclone” over the Mozambique Channel before making landfall.
The cyclone is expected to intensify on Thursday as it approaches coastal Mozambique, with current windspeeds at sea averaging 110 kilometres per hour and gusts of 155 kilometres an hour.
It is projected to make landfall in Mozambique’s Zambezia province.
Mozambique is still recovering from the effects of the first landing of Cyclone Freddy on February 24, which left more than 200,000 people homeless after destroying over 28,000 homes in the capital Maputo and surrounding areas.
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