Below you can see the results cyclone Gamede has created
today, although her center was still 250 km away..
Gamede is the first
cyclone that influenced Mauritius Island for the year
2006/2007.
It could have been much more dangerous if the
cyclone had hit the island, there would have been much more
damages. Mauritius Island has been under cyclonic alarm as
from Thursday 22 February 2007 in the afternoon until Sunday
25 February 2007. The tropical cyclone Gamede was at about
240 kilometres at its nearest to Mauritius during the night
of Saturday to Sunday. There has been wind with gust of
130km/h in some regions of the island. Gamede was only a
tropical cyclone and made a lot of damages on the island.
A cyclone has
different phases; it starts with a severe tropical storm, a
tropical cyclone, an intense tropical cyclone and a very
intense cyclone. Mauritius has also a warning system for the
cyclone to inform the public about its situation. The
warning starts from Class I to Class IV. And Mauritius was
under a warning Class IV as from Sunday 25 at 4 a.m. and at
10 a.m. there was no cyclone warning on the island as the
tropical cyclone was not anymore a danger for the island.
The next cyclone is
already on its way but still far from Mauritius Island, it
has been named Humba.
For some
information the most devastating cyclones that hit the
island were Alix and Carol in 1960. But the most violent
cyclone is Carol which hit the island on 28 February 1960
with wind and gust of over 200km/h, when the eye of the
cyclone was passing over the island there was a calm and
sunny weather for about three hours which was directly
followed by wind and gust of 200km/h.
Have a look at the
video of the tropical cyclone Gamede to have an idea of some
of the damages caused. The video has been done on Saturday
24 in the afternoon.
