The Tanzania Meteorological Authority has reported the weak fall of the Tropical Cyclone Jobo on the country’s coast line on Sunday.
This was after the cyclone losing strength in the last six hours.
As a result, normalcy has returned to Dar es Salaam, the commercial capital, which had braced itself for the storm’s wrath for the first time in dec.
The cyclone lost its intensity when it made landfall in the South of Pwani and Dar es Salaam regions on the night of April 24, according to a statement issued early Sunday, April 25. As a result, its impacts were not felt as quickly as predicted.
According to the report, Jobo is currently not in Tanzania and no direct damage is expected.
However, the remnants of the cyclone’s clouds could trigger rain in some areas of the Coastal Zone, according to the report.
Only two other tropical cyclones have made landfall on Tanzanian shores since the 19th century: the “Zanzibar Cyclone” of 1872 and Cyclone Lindi of 1952, according to records. On April 14th and 15th of their respective years, the two storms hit the country 80 years and one day apart.
Cyclones Idai and Kenneth devastated nearby Mozambique in consecutive months in 2019.
On average, tropical cyclones affect Mozambique once per decade, and only four have ever made landfall with category 3 equivalent or stronger winds since 1950.
