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Intense Tropical Cyclone Funso
Intense Tropical Cyclone Funso shortly after peak intensity on January 24, 2012
Meteorological history
Formed
January 17, 2012
Extratropical
January 28, 2012
Dissipated
February 1, 2012
Intense tropical cyclone
10-minute sustained (MFR)
Highest winds
205 km/h (125 mph)
Lowest pressure
925 hPa (mbar); 27.32 inHg
Category 4-equivalent tropical cyclone
1-minute sustained (SSHWS/JTWC)
Highest winds
220 km/h (140 mph)
Lowest pressure
937 hPa (mbar); 27.67 inHg
Overall effects
Fatalities
At least 40 total
Damage
Unknown
Areas affected
Mozambique, Malawi
IBTrACS
Part of the 2011–12 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
Intense Tropical Cyclone Funso was a powerful tropical cyclone which produced flooding in Mozambique and Malawi in January 2012. It was the eighth tropical cyclone, the sixth named storm and the second tropical cyclone to form during the 2011–12 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season. Funso was also the first intense tropical cyclone since Gelane in 2010 and the first storm to affect Mozambique since Jokwe in 2008.
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