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The consecutive hurricanes that ravaged Mozambique are unprecedented in history, said Friday the UN, while it planned to examine the country's defenses against extreme weather conditions, to the light of climate change.
Hurricane Kenneth, who crashed Thursday in northern Mozambique, hit "an area in which no tropical cyclone has been observed since the era of satellites," said the lone cyclist. World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in a statement.
Kenneth hit just one month after Hurricane Idai hit central Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, killing more than 1,000 people.
"There is no record of two storms of such intensity striking Mozambique during the same season," said WMO, calling Kenneth "an unprecedented tropical cyclone."
The United Nations meteorological agency added that an ongoing fact-finding mission to Mozambique will partially examine "the impact of climate change and sea-level rise." on Mozambique's resilience "to extreme weather conditions.
Climate change has made cyclones more damaging, as rising sea levels have heightened the force of storm surges, said WMO spokeswoman Clare Nullis at the weekend. ; AFP.
Stronger or stronger waves are directed towards the shore, posing a potentially greater risk for coastal populations.
According to WMO, the current hurricane season in the southwestern Indian Ocean "has been exceptionally intense", with 15 storms and 9 "intense cyclones".
This sets a record between 1993 and 1994, the agency added.
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