This system in the South Atlantic off the coast of Brazil has been classified as a tropical cyclone by the NOAA HPC. This comes 6 years after Cyclone Catarina, in March 2004, the first hurricane-intensity tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Southern Atlantic Ocean.
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