The Watchers
BY THE WATCHERS
Tropical Cyclone “Freddy” is expected to make landfall between 15:00 and 18:00 UTC on February 21, 2023, over the north of the province of Vatovavy-Fitovinany, Madagascar. After moving over Madagascar, bringing strong winds and heavy rains, the system will exit into the Mozambique Channel, re-intensify, and then make landfall over Mozambique.
- Freddy formed on February 6, 2023, as the fourth named storm of the 2022/23 Australian region cyclone season. The system rapidly intensified and reached category 4 on the Australian scale before entering the South-West Indian Ocean on February 14. It continued to intensify, reaching a peak of 270 km/h (165 mph) on February 15, equivalent to a Category 5 tropical cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
- After moving over Madagascar, Freddy will re-intensify and head toward Mozambique.
- Once it makes landfall in Mozambique, it will become one of only four systems to traverse the entirety of the southern Indian Ocean from east to west. The others were cyclones Litanne in 1994 and Leon–Eline and Hudah in 2000.
At 06:00 UTC on February 21, the center of Tropical Cyclone “Freddy” was located about 300 km (180 miles) W of Madagascar, 445 km (277 miles) WNW of Réunion, and about 1 020 km (630 miles) SE of Mayotte.
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