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Mozambique: Jokwe Still in Channel
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Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo)
13 March 2008
Posted to the web 13 March 2008
Maputo
Although the Mozambican meteorological office (INAM) has warned that, as from Thursday, cyclone Jokwe might influence the weather in the coastal districts of the southern provinces of Gaza and Inhambane, the latest projections of the storm's trajectory indicate that it is moving very slowly and unlikely to hit Mozambique again.
On Thursday morning, satellite images showed that Jokwe was still in the southern Mozambique Channel and was much nearer Madagascar than Mozambique. The storm was moving at only three knots (about 5.5 kilometres an hour).
But it was still a serious threat to shipping, since it was generating winds of 130 kilometres an hour, with gusts of almost 160 kilometres an hour. The waves raised by the cyclone were around seven metres tall.
After moving south-west overnight (i.e. towards Mozambique), Jokwe reversed direction on Thursday morning, and headed north-east (i.e. back towards Madagascar). The projections from the US Navy's Joint Cyclone Warning Centre suggest that it will maintain this slow northeasterly movement for the next day.
Jokwe struck the northern Mozambican province of Nampula on Saturday, causing considerable destruction of peasant homes, blowing the roofs off many public buildings, and cutting the power supply to some areas. The known death toll from the cyclone in Nampula is now ten.
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Jokwe also affected Pebane and Maganja da Costa districts in Zambezia province, but then drifted back into the Mozambique Channel, moving southwards, and bringing rain and high winds to southern Madagascar.
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