Madagascar is bracing for Cyclone Freddy which has been described as an 'intense tropical cyclone.' Two weeks ago, 30 Madagascar residents died in Cyclone Cheneso.
Two weeks after Tropical Cyclone Cheneso devastated Madagascar, killing 30 people, theMeteo France has described Freddy as an"intense tropical cyclone" and a"particularly powerful and compact tropical system, generating extreme winds near its center." The much smaller islands of Mauritius and Reunion are on high alert as Freddy — churning westward on Friday about 1,242 miles east of Mauritius — was expected to cause flooding there Sunday and Monday.
In its latest briefing Friday afternoon, the United Nations regional weather observation center in Reunion said Freddy, which formed two weeks ago near Indonesia, was expected to make landfall early next week with the equivalent strength of a formidable Category 5 hurricane.said it was mobilizing its teams for the cyclone.
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