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Another powerful tropical cyclone is heading towards the southeastern coast of Africa and is expected to touch the land on Thursday.
According to the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a cyclone dubbed Severe Tropical Storm Kenneth will head west and is expected to hit near Mienguleia in Cabo Delgado province.
"Currently, the speed of the wind is estimated at 60 knots, about 120 km / h, and it is starting to get very strong," Mbavhi Maliage, a forecaster with the South African Meteorological Service, told News24 on Wednesday.
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Precipitation storms are hard to estimate and Maliage said Kenneth would probably become stronger.
"They expect it to be a tropical cyclone tomorrow morning."
Second tropical system
Another weaker system, Lorna, is built east of Madagascar, but is considered a tropical depression.
Cyclones are clbadified according to the wind speed.
At one end of the scale, a tropical depression is badessed with a wind speed between 51 km / h and 63 km / h, and a very intense tropical cyclone with a wind speed greater than 213 km / h.
The east coast of South Africa is recovering after a lower depression, with a wind speed of between 35 and 45 knots (64 and 83 km / h).
News24 reported that 51 people died as a result of the storm.
Mozambique is still recovering from the damage caused by tropical cyclone Idai, which struck in March with winds of 200 km / h.
At least 600 people have died from Idai in Mozambique, bringing to more than 1,000 the total number of inhabitants in southern Africa.
Kenneth is the latest in a series of storms from the 2018/2019 season that included Idai, Dineo, Desmond and Eketsang.
Cyclones are typical of Mozambique at this time of year, but there is reason to fear that weather conditions will intensify.
Extreme weather events
According to Mozambique's National Institute of Disaster Management, the National Center for Operational Emergencies (CENOE) is ready to deal with extreme weather events. In 2017, the CENOE demonstrated the use of drones to allow teams to badess the impact and magnitude of natural disasters.
According to the Master Plan for Disaster Risk Reduction 2017-2030 in Mozambique, the National Institute of Disaster Management of Mozambique explained that in the last 20 years, the country has experienced an intensity and a increasing frequency of extreme weather events.
Maliage does not speculate on the reasons for the intensity of the storms in the region, but says that two major storms are unusual.
"This is not impossible, but it is not common for two tropical cyclones to touch each other so close in one season."
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