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Topuito, Nampula, 24 January 2022. [Photo: Songo9Dades]
Tropical Cyclone “Ana” formed on Sunday, January 23, 2022, and made landfall over Mozambique early Monday morning with maximum sustained winds of 85 km/h (53 mph). Ana is the first named storm of the 2022 Southwest Indian Ocean cyclone season.
Tropical Storm Ana hit Mozambique today. Flooding rains on the way for parts of southern Africa over the next few days, with the potential for more cyclones pic.twitter.com/ThGVyDPsSH
— BBC Weather (@bbcweather) January 24, 2022
Tropical storm #ANA has made landfall. Affecting the Nampula, Cabo Delgado & Zambezia provinces of Mozambique. @CruzVermelhaMOZ & @IFRCAfrica staff are on the ground scaling up anticipatory action to assist local communities. #IFRCSouthernAFR pic.twitter.com/qMdjCbIWuH
— Naemi Heita (@NaemiHeita) January 24, 2022
There are concerns that there could be another big tropical storm building up off the coast of Mozambique.
Nancy Kordouli, from the International Federation of Red Cross, spoke to #Newzroom405‘s @StephenGrootes.WATCH: https://t.co/oKxqpmIqtw pic.twitter.com/Fq6isSTZgH
— Newzroom Afrika (@Newzroom405) January 24, 2022
The system made its first landfall between 08:00 UTC and 09:00 UTC on January 22, between Toamasina and Île Sainte-Marie in Madagascar, as a tropical depression.
The cyclone weakened over the mountainous terrain of Madagascar but still managed to preserve its organized convection and low-level center.
At 06:00 UTC on January 23, Meteo France (MFR) re-classified it again as a tropical disturbance after entering the Mozambique Channel.
At 15:00 UTC, the JTWC declared the system as a tropical cyclone and designated it as 07S.
The MFR later upgraded it to a Moderate Tropical Storm and named it Ana at 00:00 UTC on January 24.
Tropical Cyclone “Ana” formed on Sunday, January 23, 2022, and made landfall over Mozambique early Monday morning with maximum sustained winds of 85 km/h (53 mph). Ana is the first named storm of the 2022 Southwest Indian Ocean cyclone season.
The system made its first landfall between 08:00 UTC and 09:00 UTC on January 22, between Toamasina and Île Sainte-Marie in Madagascar, as a tropical depression.
The cyclone weakened over the mountainous terrain of Madagascar but still managed to preserve its organized convection and low-level center.
At 06:00 UTC on January 23, Meteo France (MFR) re-classified it again as a tropical disturbance after entering the Mozambique Channel.
At 15:00 UTC, the JTWC declared the system as a tropical cyclone and designated it as 07S.
The MFR later upgraded it to a Moderate Tropical Storm and named it Ana at 00:00 UTC on January 24.
Tropical Cyclone “Ana” at 07:15 UTC on January 24, 2022. Credit: EUMETSAT/Meteosat-8, RAMMB/CIRA, TW
At 06:00 UTC on January 24, Ana was a Moderate Tropical Storm (MFR) located approximately 669 km (415 miles) WNW of Antananarivo, Madagascar.
Its maximum 10-minute sustained winds were 85 km/h (50 mph) with gusts up to 120 km/h (75 mph), while maximum 1-minute sustained winds were 95 km/h (60 mph).
The minimum central barometric pressure was 990 hPa and the system was moving WSW at 26 km/h (16 mph).
The Mozambique National Meteorology Institute (INAM) has placed most of the country on Red alert ahead of the landfall, expected to take place in the province of Nampula, between the districts of Mogincual and Larde on Monday afternoon (LT).
Source: The Watchers
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