Southern Africa Floods Situation Report No. 2 (as of 30 January 2013)

Highlights

• Heavy rains continue to fall over northern Mozambique, causing floods in some areas and affecting at least 510 people.

• Parts of northern and central Madagascar are also recording heavy rainfall from the same low pressure system located in the Mozambique Channel.

• Felleng, now a Category Three Tropical Cyclone and expected to strengthen to Category Four in the next 24 hours, continues its southward trajectory, about 200 km parallel to the eastern coast of Madagascar. Felleng is projected to bring three to four days of rainfall to the eastern coast of Madagascar; flooding is expected.