Long loops of Cyclone Freddy from Himawari-9 and from Polar Orbiters
Indian Ocean Cyclone Freddy had an unusually long track and lifespan as it crossed the southern Indian Ocean. The animation above (created using geo2grid software) shows hourly Himawari-9 Clean Window infrared (10.4 µm) imagery from 5 February through 19 February, when Freddy could no longer be viewed by that geostationary satellite. Freddy appears over the eastern part of the domain on 6 February and shows a nice eye on the 11th of February, and again from 14-16 February, and at the end of the animation as well.
The MIMIC-TC animation, below, courtesy Derrick Herndon, CIMSS, shows how the microwave-sensed presentation of the storm evolved during its lifetime from 06 February through 22 February 2023. The maximum inferred windspeed, 135 knots, occurred twice, once on 16 February and once on 19 February. SATCON wind estimates, here, from this website, also showed the twin peaks in intensity.
MIMIC TPW fields, shown below as in an mp4 (Click here for an animated gif) also tracked Freddy across the Indian Ocean, from its formation near Australia on the 6th to its landfall in Madagascar on the 21st and Mozambique on the 24th.
NOAA/NESDIS has produced a story on Freddy, available here; the animation in that story is on YouTube.