![]() Freddy rapidly weakened overland but re-strengthened in the Mozambique Channel. Freddy made its first landfall near Mananjary, Madagascar. On 19 February, Météo-France (MFR) upgraded it to a very intense tropical cyclone. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) estimated Freddy's peak strength, equivalent to Category 5 strength on the Saffir–Simpson scale. While in the Australian region cyclone basin, the storm quickly intensified and became a Category 4 severe tropical cyclone, before it moved into the South-West Indian Ocean basin. ![]() Additionally, Freddy is the only known tropical cyclone to achieve seven separate rapid intensification cycles. It also has the highest accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) of any tropical cyclone on record worldwide, surpassing Hurricane Ioke in 2006. Part of the 2022–23 Australian region and South-West Indian Ocean cyclone seasonsĬyclone Freddy was the longest-lived tropical cyclone on record, beating the previous record of Hurricane John in 1994.
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