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Mozambique: Cyclone Kenneth is now a CAT 4, expected to match Idai’s peak – alerts
10:02 CAT | 25 Apr 2019
Image: Twitter
The tropical storm approaching Mozambique has now evolved into a Category 4 severe tropical cyclone.
Cyclone Kenneth had yesterday become stronger, “evolving into a Category 3 tropical cyclone, projected to evolve into a Category 4 severe tropical cyclone on Thursday (25),” Mozambique weather bureau the Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (INAM) had said, This has been confirmed in the early hours of today.
In the video posted at the National Institute for Disaster Management Facebook page [see below], INGC’s director general Augusta Maita, speaking in Pemba yesterday to a resident hesitant about leaving his house, tells him:
“The same is coming! The same thing is coming! It is just the same as Idai. It’s not anything less, no it isn’t. Cyclone Category 4!. It’s exactly like the other one,” she tells a man who was hesitant about leaving his house to a safer area.
#CycloneKenneth is now barreling towards Mozambique as a CAT4 cyclone with wind speeds of over 200 km//h. @CARE teams deploying to assess the situation. This is now the second major cyclone in 6 weeks. pic.twitter.com/rORKNHBFff
— Marc Nosbach (@NosbachMarc) April 25, 2019
Folks, this is a dire warning for Mozambique:#CycloneKenneth has rapidly strengthened and is now expected to match Cyclone Idai’s peak (125mph/200kph).
After landfall, Kenneth will stall inland—just like Idai—with up to 30in/800mm of rain.
This is a humanitarian catastrophe. pic.twitter.com/eLegwhdrdk
— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) April 24, 2019
INAM expected Cyclone Kenneth to make landfall on the coast and move between the districts of Mocímboa da Praia and Macomia during the afternoon of Thursday (25) bringing intense rains (over 100 mm/24h), accompanied by violent thunderstorms and winds of up to 120 to 140 kmh, gusting to 160 kmh. These forecasts have now been revised to a CAT 4.
25/04 09h00 Past 24hr SSEC cloud tops (temp) IR animated satellite image of tropical cyclone Kenneth (CAT 4), eye forming before it makes landfall this today. pic.twitter.com/i6dVCxl84k
— Dullstroom Weather (@Dullsweather) April 25, 2019
#Kenneth will likely have winds equivalent of Cat 4 strength when it makes landfall in Mozambique, if not stronger. Very high winds and widespread flooding will add to an already terrible situation. https://t.co/f37orxXSc7
— Kal Tellefsen (@KalTellefsenWX) April 25, 2019
Já se faz sentir a ventania anunciada na Cidade de #Pemba face a aproximação do #cyclonekenneth como ilustram as imagens feitas a partir do Porto local. Os ventos vão atingir 180 km/h com rajadas até 200 km/h, acompanhadas de chuvas intensas (mais de 100 mm/24h) e trovoadas. pic.twitter.com/eM6Pp6xdx5
— Alexandre (@AllexandreMZ) April 25, 2019
For the provinces of Niassa, Cabo Delgado and Nampula, INAM forecasts cloudy skies, locally very cloudy, and showers with thunderstorms and weak to moderate/locally strong rains in the coastal districts of Cabo Delgado and Nampula. Winds will be weak to moderate, from south-east to south-west, with strong gusts along the coastal zone.
Já se faz sentir a ventania anunciada na Cidade de #Pemba face a aproximação do #cyclonekenneth como ilustram as imagens feitas a partir do Porto local. Os ventos vão atingir 180 km/h com rajadas até 200 km/h, acompanhadas de chuvas intensas (mais de 100 mm/24h) e trovoadas. pic.twitter.com/eM6Pp6xdx5
— Alexandre (@AllexandreMZ) April 25, 2019
For Tete, Zambézia, Manica and Sofala, INAM forecasts cloudy skies, locally very cloudy with a chance of light rain, winds weak to moderate, south-east to south-west.
The forecast for Inhambane, Gaza and Maputo is partly cloudy/locally cloudy skies, a chance of rain with thunderstorms or moderate to heavy rains in Maputo and southern Gaza. Wind from the north-east to east, weak to moderate, blowing sometimes with gusts.
Here are the expected temperatures:
Cat 4 Tropical Cyclone #Kenneth is about to bring destruction to #Mozambique just weeks after a rare TC left a thousand dead. You will hear about this on the news soon. Image from Meteosat ctsy. EUMETSAT. pic.twitter.com/V7ICNnUhv8
— Dan Satterfield (@wildweatherdan) April 25, 2019
Bad news for Northern Mozambique. Tropical Cyclone Kenneth continues to intensify now 100-knots (Category 3) but likely to be Cat 4+ at landfall on Thursday.
Satellite appearance is ominous. pic.twitter.com/X5gGv1FwF0
— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) April 24, 2019
#Tropical Cyclone #Kenneth may become the northernmost hurricane-strength landfall on record in southern Africa Thursday, another devastating blow for Mozambique just weeks after #Idai. @wunderground Cat. 6 blog: https://t.co/uPRWJ17Jv2 pic.twitter.com/wOmb44aQs3
— The Weather Channel (@weatherchannel) April 24, 2019
Source: CARE Mozambique / A Verdade / INGC
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