Finally, it is safe to go back to the beach again because the thundering Typhoon Hidaya has called it quits from thrashing the Indian Ocean shorelines of Kenya and Tanzania.
Hidaya had previously caused many residents of Mombasa, Dar-es-salaam and other coastal precincts in Tanzania and Kenya, woke up to some rather scary developments of fallen trees, destroyed house porches and some misplaced pieces of indoor furniture.
The Hidaya weekend also caused serious power shortages in major towns and cities of mainland Tanzania, though the country is very used to power blackouts.
Hidaya, the lady-named tropical cyclone wreaked havoc on the shores of East African countries in the first weekend of May, 2024.
The wave with another build-up behind it was also expected to precipitate into heavy rains afterwards but according to reports from the weather stations of Kenya and Tanzania, the cyclone should be over and done with now.
This is a rare incident of the Tropical typhoon referred to as Hidaya which was experienced recently, had been moving in circles from the Indian Ocean heading to the north of Comoros islands before speeding towards Kenya and Tanzanian coastline.
The speed of the wind was estimated at 40 miles per hour when the cyclone took off.
But as it moved towards the mainland the deadly Hidaya gained more velocity reaching 60 miles, over 100 kilometers per hour, which is double the highway speed limit for most East African motorways.
The tropical low evolving to the north of the Mozambique Channel had apparently intensified to a tropical depression.
Hidaya hit the East African shorelines at 9.00 am while most people were asleep.
Minimal central pressure is estimated at 1001 Hectopascal for gusts reaching 75 kilometers per hour.
The system built up into a storm which intensified to become the weather phenomenon known as ‘Hidaya,’ the third in the trio siblings that have been terrorizing the Eastern Africa Region for the last three years or so.
In such a case, it will be the third year in a row that this rare phenomena occurs in the tropical climates with a late comer cyclone occurring in May.
Before Hidaya, there was her brother, the KARIM Cyclone which started the trend by hitting these shores in the year 2022.
After Karim, their other sibling known as FABIEN, or the Fabian Typhoon which blew the storms into East Africa in 2023
These same sea storms have different names; around these shores they are known as ‘Cyclones!’ as they occur in the Indian Ocean.
Elsewhere they are given different names, for instance in the Pacific they are known as Typhoons but when they whirl in the Atlantic Ocean, they become hurricanes.
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