'Cyclone Idai Could Be The Deadliest Cyclone To Hit Africa' -Report

Tropical Cyclone is considered to be the deadliest cyclone to ever occur in the Sothern hemisphere.

A CNN report compares Idai with hurricanes in the Northen Hemisphere as well as those that hit Mozambique (Southern Hemisphere) in the past couple of years. Part of the report reads:

Around midnight on Thursday night, the tropical cyclone made landfall as an equivalent borderline Category 2/Category 3 storm on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale, with maximum winds at around 175 kph.

This is close to the same intensity that Hurricane Irma had when it hit Florida in 2017, which was 185 kph.
Irma spent three days as a Category 5 hurricane, the longest Category 5 hurricane since satellite storm-tracking began.

At a total of 37 hours, no storm on record has maintained winds 295 kph or above for as long as Irma. It prompted the largest evacuation in the history of the Bahamas — and potentially the largest in the US.

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Tropical Cyclone Idai’s winds reached a peak intensity of 195 kph (Category 3 on Saffir Simpson scale) on March 14 — but unlike Irma, which weakened significantly before hitting the US, Idai made landfall less than 24 hours after reaching its peak intensity.

If Idai’s death toll reaches 1,000 people, it would be the deadliest tropical cyclone anywhere since Super Typhoon Haiyan, equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane, struck the Philippines in 2013 and killed more than 7,000 people.

… Idai was the strongest tropical cyclone to hit the country since 2008, when Tropical Cyclone Jokwe, which had maximum winds of 185 kph, made landfall.

Tropical Storm Eline struck the same region in 2000 and killed around 800 people. Eline, which had winds equivalent to a Category 4 hurricane when it hit, is currently listed as the deadliest African tropical cyclone — or anywhere in the southern hemisphere.

However, Idai is already one of the deadliest storms to ever strike anywhere in the southern hemisphere and it could end up topping that list.

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More: CNN News