video | A stunning view from space of the eye of Hurricane `Freddy` as it travels over the Indian Ocean to hit East Africa

Weather of Arabia - In a breathtaking scene, the cameras of the state space station captured the tropical cyclone "Freddy" over the Indian Ocean, where the eye of the hurricane was amazingly visible from space while the space station was orbiting the earth yesterday, Friday.

Tropical cyclone Freddy formed off the southern coast of Indonesia in early February, and is currently located in the middle of the southern Indian Ocean, about halfway between Indonesia and Madagascar. It had reached its peak intensity on Wednesday, and as of yesterday, Friday, the rate of The speed of the winds accompanying it, but it is still strong, of the fourth degree, with winds reaching a speed of 249 kilometers per hour, and thus a strong hurricane capable of causing catastrophic damage.

Madagascar and several other countries along the coast from Tanzania to South Africa are watching the storm's progress in anticipation of potential flooding effects.

Hurricane Freddy is expected to reach the coasts of Madagascar and possibly parts of South Africa this weekend, and it could affect up to two million people living in its path, and it will be the strongest storm to form so far during 2023, which can cause heavy rains and widespread sudden floods. The scale has serious landslides and even fatalities.

Save the Children is sounding the alarm about the increasing frequency and intensity of tropical storms in southern Africa. Hurricane Freddie will be the second hurricane to hit Madagascar this year, after the devastating Cyclone Chineso in January, which killed 33 people, left 20 missing, and left 34,000 people homeless.

The organization expressed concern about what could be a deadly hurricane season this year in the region, adding that these extreme weather events are becoming more frequent as a result of the climate crisis.

The scientific reason behind the formation of hurricanes in the southern Indian Ocean region

Scientifically, the reason for the formation of hurricanes in the southern Indian Ocean region is due to the entry of these regions in the summer, when the water temperature of the southern Indian Ocean rose to about 28 degrees Celsius, which is a very favorable temperature for the formation of huge cumulus clouds that begin to develop and grow and absorb the potential energy from the surface temperature. warm waters, which makes it gradually develop into a tropical air system, the atmospheric pressure decreases in its center, and clouds begin to circulate around the center of low air pressure, announcing the growth of a hurricane when the wind speed reaches more than 120 km / h, and the classification of the hurricane increases according to the average wind speed according to the "Safir-Simpson" scale To measure the intensity of hurricanes.

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