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The 2023 Western Cape floods were a devastating series of floods affecting the Western Cape province of South Africa as a result of heavy rainfall on 24-25 September 2023. [1] The flooding resulted in at least 11 fatalities, the closure of over 200 roads, and over 80,000 people being left without electricity.
A tropical storm warning was issued for the Cape Verde Islands, but was discontinued when Debby turned further westward and away from the islands. September 9, 2010: Hurricane Igor passed about 30 miles (48 km) to the south of the southernmost Cape Verde islands as a tropical storm, [ 33 ] bringing tropical storm force winds to Brava and Fogo .
Tropical cyclone warnings and watches are alerts issued by national weather forecasting bodies to coastal areas threatened by the imminent approach of a tropical cyclone of tropical storm or hurricane intensity. They are notices to the local population and civil authorities to make appropriate preparation for the cyclone, including evacuation ...
Tropical Storm Warning from Surf City, NC to South Santee River, SC. Flood Watch for Robeson, Bladen, Pender, New Hanover, Brunswick, Columbus, Horry, Marion, and Dillon counties, and it has been ...
High winds of 50 km/h caused by the storm fueled around 20 to 30 significant fires that swept through the town of Knysna and surrounding areas in the days after the storm. [5] The fires killed seven people [ 6 ] and displaced around 10,000 [ 7 ] [ 8 ] with around 600 structures in Knysna and Plettenberg Bay being destroyed.
[67] [68] Tropical Cyclone Lincoln formed on 16 February and made landfall on the Gulf of Carpentaria coast. [69] Severe Tropical Cyclone Neville formed north of the Cocos Islands [70] on 1 March and left the basin 20 days later. [71] Severe Tropical Cyclone Megan formed on 13 March from a tropical low over the coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria ...
Chido was a category 4 cyclone, the second strongest on the scale, and the worst to hit Mayotte since the 1930s, Prefect François-Xavier Bieuville, the top French government official in the island group, told Mayotte la 1ere. Bieuville on Sunday asserted that the death toll was several hundred people and could even be in the thousands.
Many of the more intense Atlantic storms are Cape Verde-type hurricanes, which form off the west coast of Africa near the Cape Verde islands. Occasionally, a hurricane that evolves into an extratropical cyclone can reach western Europe, including Hurricane Gordon, which spread high winds across Spain and the British Isles in September 2006. [9]