VATOMANDRY, MADAGASCAR - Cyclone Batsirai weakened overnight but floods were still expected due to heavy rain after"Batsirai has weakened," Meteo Madagascar said, adding that the cyclone's average wind speed had almost halved to 80 km per hour, while the strongest gusts had scaled back to 110 km/h from the 235 km/h recorded when it made landfall on Saturday evening.
Batsirai made landfall in Mananjary district, more than 530 km southeast of the capital Antananarivo, around 8pm local time Saturday. He said his office has accommodation sites, food and medical care ready for victims, as well as search and rescue plans already in place.The Meteo-France weather service had earlier predicted Batsirai would present"a very serious threat" to Madagascar, after passing Mauritius and drenching the French island of La Reunion with torrential rain for two days.
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