March 12, 2022 - Tropical Cyclone Gombe over Mozambique
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After soaking northern Madagascar earlier in the week, Tropical Cyclone
Gombe made landfall over the central Nampula Province on March 11,
2022. As the storm came ashore, it carried maximum sustained winds of
about 190 km/h (118 mph), which places it as a Category 3 storm on the
Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. There were two fatalities in
Madagascar, according to ReliefWeb. At least seven deaths have been
reported in Madagascar as of the evening of March 11.
Once Gombe crossed the coast, it moved inland and quickly weakened,
becoming a tropical depression. Tropical depressions are cyclones with
maximum sustained winds of 38 mph (61 km/h). While wind speeds have
dropped precipitously, the storm is still carrying torrential rains,
and may cause flooding both in Mozambique and Malawi.
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) expects Gombe to continue to
unravel as it moves over land and should dissipate by March 12. The
remnant of the system will turn to the south and then southeastward
over the next two days then re-enter the Mozambique Channel as a weak
tropical depression in the next few days. The Moderate Resolution
Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board NASA’s Terra satellite
acquired a true-color image of Tropical Cyclone Gombe shortly after
landfall. At that time, the storm retained a cloud-filled center and
convective bands winding tightly into the center. Rain bands from Gombe
stretched over half of the Mozambique Channel and inland to Lake
Malawi, a distance of more than 1,000 km (620 miles).
Image Facts
Satellite: Terra
Date Acquired: 3/11/2022
Resolutions: 1km (448.7 KB), 500m (1.4 MB), 250m (4.3 MB)
Bands Used: 1,4,3
Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2022-03-12
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