English: This true-color image of Very Intense Tropical Cyclone Freddy was captured on the afternoon of 19 February 2023, at 09:00 UTC or (1:00 PM Mauritius Local time), by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument flying aboard NASA/NOAA's Suomi-NPP satellite. Freddy was an extraordinarily powerful and longest-lived tropical cyclone on record. It originated from a tropical disturbance embedded in a monsoonal trough near Indonesia during the 2022-23 Australian region cyclone season in early February 2023, where Freddy began its track to the west across the Indian Ocean throughout most of February into mid-March, while within the BoM's area of responsibility, it peaked as a Category 4 on the 10-min Australian scale and also peaking as a Category 4 on 1-min Saffir-Simpson wind scale per the Joint Typhoon Warning Center's operational track data before crossing 90° east which is the line of longitude that divides the BoM-MFR areas of responsibilities. Upon entering Météo-France's area of responsibility, Freddy was classified as a "Tropical Cyclone" on the MFR 10-min wind scale. Freddy quickly intensified into an "Intense Tropical Cyclone" and then a "Very Intense Tropical Cyclone" on the MFR 10-min scale, becoming the second cyclone to reach that intensity during the 2022-23 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, the first being Darian earlier in the season in December, which that cyclone also originated from the Australian basin, also Freddy would go on surpass Fantala of the 2015-16 season becoming the most ACE producing cyclone south of the equator and then later became the most ACE producing cyclone worldwide which it achieved on 11 March surpassing the old record set by Hurricane-Typhoon Ioke in 2006, also a few days prior before that record was broken Freddy would beat the record that John set in 1994 surviving a total of 37 days as mentioned in the first sentence. After this image was taken, Freddy would go on and affect Mauritius, Reunion, and, ultimately, Madagascar and Mozambique. When this image was captured, Freddy was moving west-southwest over the open Indian Ocean not far off Rodrigues. Also, when this satellite image was captured, Freddy was at its peak intensity as a "very intense tropical cyclone" on the 10-min MFR cyclone scale with winds of 140 mph (230 km/h) (120 knots) and was at the time a Category 5 equivalent cyclone on the 1-min Saffir-Simpson scale with winds of 160 mph (260 km/h) (140 knots). It had a minimum central pressure of 927 mbar (27.4 inHg).