One of the fatalities include a baby in a car swept away by raging floodwaters. Click to read more. A cyclone swept through southern Brazil, leaving at least 13 people dead and thousands homeless as flash flooding due to heavy rain battered the region.
Freddy may continue westward after hitting Madagascar, possibly reaching Mozambique late this week, though the strength of Freddy's circulation is still unknow
According to the Bureau of Meteorology's Special Climate Statement 76, brief and heavy rainstorms have risen by roughly 10% in some places during the last decade, particularly in the north.
The cyclone has been forecasted to form on Wednesday west of Vanuatu and near Fiji. The tropical low has been initially forecasted earlier to develop into a cyclone and hit the coast of Queensland, Australia, this week as it navigates the Coral Sea.