Cyclone Freddy broke record for longest-lasting tropical storm
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has recognized last year's tropical cyclone Freddy as the longest-lasting cyclone ever recorded, the organization reported in Geneva on Tuesday. It lasted 36 days and travelled around 12,780 kilometres as a tropical storm or cyclone. Freddy partially devastated Madagascar off the east coast of Africa and the neighbouring countries of Mozambique and Malawi on the mainland. More than 500 people lost their lives. To date, tropical cyclone John had been the longest, lasting 29.75 days. It raged in the North Pacific in 1994. Cyclone Freddy formed off the ...