The storm has survived for 31 days and rapidly intensified six times.
As of midmorning Eastern time on Tuesday, Freddy was located just west of Toliara in southwest Madagascar, where the storm was producing heavy rainfall. It had winds of between 95 and 100 mph and was moving northwest at 6 mph.
On satellite, Freddy had a pinhole eye six miles wide that recently emerged from a central dense overcast region.At the high altitudes, counterclockwise-spinning high pressure is present, shunting the jet stream to the south. That’s allowing for “exhaust” air exiting above Freddy to fan radially outward, especially to the north. The easier it is for “outflow” air to escape away from a system, the more efficiently a storm can ingest warm, humid air in contact with the toasty ocean waters below.
Equally impressive is how much ACE, or Accumulated Cyclone Energy, Freddy has generated. ACE is a product of wind speed and storm duration, and it attempts to quantify how much energy a storm extracts from warm ocean waters. Freddy has already set the southern hemisphere’s record, and could nab a record worldwide.
“Freddy has just surpassed several storms for ACE including Paka , Ivan and John ,” wrote Philip Klotzbach, a hurricane researcher at Colorado State University, in an email. “It currently stands in 2nd place behind Ioke for most ACE for a single tropical cyclone since 1980. Prior to that time, data in the Southern Hemisphere gets really sketchy!”powers on. What's allowed it to last over 1 month? Steering currents.
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